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Egypt and Djibouti underlined the importance of improving joint coordination on the ranks relating to the Red Sea and the Egyptian President Abdel Fattoh El -Sisi and his counterpart Djibouti Ismail Omar Gailah underlined “the refusal of any practices that influence freedom of maritime navigation”.

Al -Sisi visited Djibouti, on Wednesday, during which he held talks, according to the “Egyptian presidency”, “ways to improve bilateral relations, as well as joint coordination on the regional conditions in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa”.

This is the second visit to Sisi in Djibouti after his first visit in May 2021, which was therefore considered the first visit to an Egyptian president and faced “ways to develop cooperation between the two countries in economic, safety and development fields”.

Al -Sisi indicated during a press conference with Gail that “his second visit to Djibouti came with a message of pride in historical ties and the relationship of the strategic partnership that brings the two countries to”, and said that “his interviews with his counterpart of Djibouti have faced the situation in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea and the challenges committed by the two countries in the region”.

The interviews confirmed “rejecting the threat of security and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea”, as it is an international vital commercial artery. Al -Sisi stressed “the need to join the principles and concentrations of regional security” and said that “the exclusive responsibility of the countries overlooking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden have been agreed in the governance and guaranteeing this international navigation corridor”, according to the “Egyptian presidency”.

In a joint declaration, Cairo and Djibouti underlined “the importance of activation (the Council of the Arab and African countries that rises to the Red Sea) to take on its original responsibilities, in strengthening the coordination between the right countries of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden”.

The Council of the Arab and African countries includes the rinse of the Red Sea, established in 2020, eight Arab and African countries, that is to say: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea and aim to “improve safety and development among its members”.

According to the declaration of the “Egyptian presidency”, al -Sisi underlined “the need to support the pillars of security and stability in Somalia, maintaining its unity, the integration and integrity of its lands” and said that “any attempt to threaten the unity, the sovereignty of Sudan, the Sudan of Southn need to preserve the Sudanese national institutions and improve the entry into force of humanitarian aid to all regions. “

The interviews of the Egyptian president and his counterpart Djibouti also dealt with the developments of the Palestinian question, and underlined “the unified Arab position that rejected the displacement of the Palestinians outside their lands, under any name”, and underlined “the imperative to reach the members (Arabititi for the current (the international cooperation for the adaptation of international partners). Plan to reconstruct Gaza.

Sisi’s visit to Djibouti arrives in an important moment in which the Horn of Africa is witnessing tensions that require joint coordination, according to the ambassador Mona Omar, former Egyptian Foreign Minister for African affairs.

He told ASharq al -awsat that “Egyptian relations -djbbotian are based on a strategic alliance for cooperation in various sectors, in particular economic and security”, as well as “regional cooperation with the countries of the horn of Africa, in light of the mechanism of triple cooperation with Somalia and Eritrea”.

Egypt deepened its presence in the Horn of Africa, with a triple summit that brought together the leaders of “Egypt, Somalia and Eritrea”, last October, in the Eritrean capital of Asmara, both in the “summit” underlined at the time “the importance of developing and strengthening these relationships, both in front of common challenges in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.”

The Egyptian coordination -djibouti extends to other Arab and African issues and files, from the point of view of belonging to Djibouti to the Arab League and the African Union, according to Mona Omar, which indicated that “Cairo aims to improve economic cooperation with Djibouti”, as well as “increasing exchange rates of exchanges to benefit from the abilities of logistical countries”.

At the level of bilateral cooperation, Sisi announced the launch of a joint program to achieve energy safety in Djibouti, which includes projects to qualify the national electricity network and the project of the Solar plant, as well as discussing the establishment of a logistics center for Egyptian companies in the free areas of Djibouti and the project to expand the port of containment in its role.

The joint declaration has indicated “numerous projects that Egypt will contribute to the implementation in Djibouti, in the sectors of electricity, energy and ports, including the stations of solar energy and wind, in addition to the establishment of a logistics area in the free area of ​​Djibouti of Djibouti in an area in a regional area.