A joint committee of Egypt’s House of Representatives on Monday decided it should not adopt a “confrontational stand” against Italy, following a two-hour meeting, Ahram Online reported, citing the committee’s chairman. “In the short term we decided that ‘rough diplomacy’ or ‘a confrontational stand’ should be ruled out in favor of adopting soft diplomacy,” the committee’s chairman Kamal Amer, former chief of military intelligence. The meeting was attended by Mohamed Al Orabi, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the deputy interior minister, and other representatives from the interior ministry, judiciary and intelligence apparatus. The joint committee will now also serve as a fact-finding group with regard to the case of murdered Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni. The committee will also assess whether Italy intends to go through with its decision not to supply Egypt with spare F-16 parts, Amer added.