CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has left for Slovenia to lead his country’s delegation at a meeting of the two countries’ Joint Ministerial Committee for Economic Cooperation.
Spokesman for the ministry, Ahmed Abu Zeid, on Sunday said Shoukry would discuss various matters regarding bilateral ties with senior Slovenian officials.
Shoukry will also hold talks with his Slovenian counterpart Tanja Fajon on a number of regional and global issues of mutual interest, most notably the Palestinian issue on which Slovenia has adopted supportive positions since the beginning of the Gaza crisis.
Shoukry will also meet Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar, Prime Minister Robert Golob, and Slovenia’s minister of economy and tourism, on ways to support and enhance bilateral cooperation.
The visit comes as part of the qualitative shift witnessed in bilateral ties in recent years, said an official Egyptian statement.
Slovenia’s president visited Egypt in December 2016 and the visit proved a major milestone in strengthening cooperation between the two nations.
In June last year Shoukry received a call from Fajon and the two sides discussed economic and trade cooperation, and ways to develop it.
Slovenia and Egypt signed an agreement to establish diplomatic ties in 1992.
