Egypt and Comoros agree to improve African cooperation
Egypt and the commitments confirmed “improve cooperation on the African continent”, as well as “joint coordination towards the issues of the continent”, in particular the situation in Gaza, Sudan and African century. The Egyptian President Abdel Fattoh El -Sisi, after the interviews with his counterpart, the president of the Comoros, Othman Ghazali, in Cairo, Sunday, that “the need to preserve the unified African positions towards various issues”.
Al -Sisi received Ghazali and held a session of interviews that dealt with “strengthening bilateral cooperation and consultancy on regional and continental issues of common concern”, and also attended the signing of cooperation agreements between the two countries, according to a declaration to the “Egyptian presidency”.
The Egyptian president stressed that the meeting witnessed a “consent in visions regarding regional and international issues, especially which are the issues of the African Union”, in addition to the “situation in the Gaza and Sudan strip”, as well as “developments in the horn, the safety of terrorism.
Cairo hosts the “Sahel and desert center to combat terrorism”; It is a regional center to promote anti -terrorism between the countries of the organization “Sahel and Sahara”, which includes 25 African countries.
The talks also discussed “development challenges, ways to overcome poverty, reduce debt charges and to deal with the effects of climate change”, according to Sisi and said that it has been agreed on the “need to preserve unified African positions as regards various issues and to guarantee the fair representation of Africa in international institutions”.
While the chief of the Comoros praised the “Egyptian efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza strip and refuse the plans to move the Palestinians from their lands” and stressed that “his country shares the same visions with Egypt, for having supported the Palestinian question, to stop the genocide, stop the filming and establish the conflict, through the two visions of the two -states.
On a bilateral level, al -Sisi explained that “the meeting witnessed an agreement to improve bilateral cooperation in economic, investment and commercial sectors”, underlining “the readiness of his country to support development plans in the Comoros and the transfer of Egyptian skills in the development field in the field of urbanity, in the field of urban planning, in urbanmen, Egyptian emissions, in the field of tourist, In the field of urban, urban, urban, urban, urban, urban emissions, tourisms, for health countries, on urbanizes, in the field of health services.
The two countries also agree to “improve commercial exchange rates, in particular in the light of adhesion to the two countries in the meeting (Comea), in a way that guarantees the achievement of the regional integration objectives and the promotion of Inter -trade”, according to Sisi.
The volume of commercial exchange between Egypt and Comers is approximately $ 3.6 million in the last year, compared to $ 7.6 million in 2023; According to a declaration to the “central agency for mobilization and statistics” in Egypt, Sunday. (The dollar is equal to 50.70 pounds in the Egyptian banks). Egypt and Comoros have signed three agreements on “the political consultation mechanism, mutual exemption for the visa entry and private entry and public cooperation between the governments of the two countries”.
According to the former Egyptian Foreign Minister, the ambassador Hossam Issa, “the visit of the President of the Como in Egypt is recently added to a high Egyptian diplomatic activity to improve cooperation with a series of African countries”.
The past days witnessed mutual visits between a number of Egyptian and African officials, while Sisi made a visit to Djibouti, on April 23, and received the president of the Sudanese sovereign Council Abdel -fattah al -burhan, in Cairo, last week, followed by a meeting at the top with his Angolan counterpart, Joao Lorenso (the current president).
The Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly also participated in the summit of the joint countries with the mission of the African Union to support stability in Somalia, hosted by the city of Anteby in Uganda last April, and participated on Saturday, in the inauguration ceremony of President Gabonese, Price Njima.
Egypt and Comoros are participating in the belonging to three regional organizations, i.e. the African Union, the Arab League and the organization of Islamic cooperation, which imposes the coordination of common positions towards various issues, according to Issa, which indicated the political coordination between the Cairo between conference, which was not the political importance between the political coordination between the Afro countries. The policies of African countries with Egyptian interests in these files “.
In his speech during a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart, the President of the Comoros undertook to continue his country “Political support in Egypt in various African, Arabs and international forums”, noting that “the consent of the visions of the two countries towards regional and African files”.
The former Egyptian Foreign Minister believes that “the file of economic cooperation in Africa is one of the priorities of Egyptian diplomatic moves, in light of global economic repercussions, due to the international commercial war”, and stressed that “African markets constitute one of the various development projects for the various development projects. Countries.”
