Hassan El Sayed stepped off the plane onto Egyptian soil.
Exhausted after travelling since the last 2 days from Egypt to India to Egypt to India.
Finally this deal was nearing its end, as he held the revised deal in his hand which now added a new point of deployment of Indian Army Battalion for training of Egyptian military.
President Nasser had expected India to back Egypt, but the level of commitment Prime Minister Rohan had shown went beyond anything they had dared imagine.
Upon his arrival at the presidential palace, Hassan was immediately escorted into the main conference room.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser awaited him, his advisors and generals gathered around, each man's expression full of curiosity and caution.
They knew that Hassan's trip to Delhi held the key to Egypt's next move against British and French pressure over the Suez Canal.