Cairo: Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has arrived in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials amid growing signs of improving ties between the two countries after strains of more than three years.
The Qatari official, who is leading a high-level delegation, will meet his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shukry for talks on cooperation links between Egypt and Qatar, the Egyptian semi-official newspaper Akhbar Al Youm reported. They will also discuss the latest developments in the region including the Palestinian problem amid efforts to shore up a ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers.
The two-day visit is part of an Arab region that already took the Qatari minister to Egypt’s neighbours Libya and Sudan to discuss the regional scene.
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed on the full resumption of flights between the two countries, an Egyptian presidential official said Friday.
In October 2015, a Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt’s Sinai shortly after take-off from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm Al Shaikh, killing all 224 on board.
The downing, claimed by the Daesh terrorist group, prompted Russia to halt direct flights to Egypt. Egypt’s key resorts of Hurghada and Sharm Al Shaikh have been hard hit by the Russian ban.
Al Sissi Friday received a phone call from Putin and agreed on the full resumption of air traffic between airports of both countries including Hurghada and Sharm Al Shaikh, spokesman for Egyptian presidency, Bassam Radi, said in a statement.
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi and Qatar’s Emir Tamim Bin Hamad have exchanged congratulations on the start of the holy month of Ramadan, according to Egyptian media, marking their first joint talk since a regional dispute ended earlier this year.
The Egyptian presidency said that Al Sissi received a phone call from the Qatari emir congratulating him on the beginning of Ramadan.
“The president expressed during the contact his tanks to the Emir of State of Qatar for his congratulation on this blessed occasion, praying to Almighty God to render it an occasion full of bounty, prosperity and blessings for people of the two brotherly countries and all Arab and Islamic countries,” spokesman for the Egyptian presidency Bassam Radi said, according to local media.
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi has led a military funeral for former prime minister Kamal Al Ganzouri who died Wednesday at a Cairo hospital at the age of 88 years.
Al Ganzouri was prime minister for three years starting from January 1996 under late president Hosni Mubarak. Al Ganzouri also served as a prime minister in November 2011 for eight months in the wake of an uprising that forced Mubarak to resign.
He had earlier served as a planning minister.
Devoted to Egypt
Al Ganzouri’s death triggered an outpouring of tributes. “Egypt has lost a statesman of a unique calibre,” Al Sissi said on his Facebook account, mourning Al Ganzouri.