Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and the visiting Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, signed a joint declaration in Cairo, promoting relations between their countries to the level of strategic partnership.
Receiving Modi at Cairo’s Al-Ittihadiya Presidential Palace, where the two leaders held summit talks, President Sisi awarded the “Order of the Nile”, Egypt’s highest state honour, to Prime Minister Modi.
During the talks, President Sisi and the Indian prime minister reiterated the distinguished historical relations between the two friendly nations, and the mutual commitment to push them to broader horizons in various fields, mainly through intensifying mutual visits between senior officials in both countries, Presidency Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said.
The Indian prime minister arrived in Cairo on Saturday, beginning a state visit, his first to Cairo since he assumed office in 2014, responding to an invitation by President Sisi.
Prime Minister Modi’s visit follows a state visit by President Sisi to New Delhi in January, then coinciding with the 75th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Egypt and India.
The Sisi-Modi summit talks covered means of boosting bilateral ties in various field, particularly communications and information technology (CIT), pharmaceutical industries and vaccines, higher education, and new and renewable energy – including green hydrogen, as well as tourism and culture via launching new flights between Cairo and New Delhi, Spokesman Fahmy said.
Bolstering bilateral trade and the exchange of strategic goods between the two nations also featured high on the agenda of the talks, together with promoting Indian investments in Egypt over the coming period.
The two leaders also exchanged views on the developments of a number of regional and international files of common interest, as the Indian prime minister invited Sisi to take part in the upcoming summit of the Group of Twenty (G20) due in New Delhi, under India’s presidency, Fahmy said.
President Sisi, for his part, expressed Egypt’s confidence that India’s presidency of G20 would actively contribute to containing the negative repercussions of global economic challenges. He also stressed Egypt’s readiness to co-operate with the G20’s Indian presidency in advancing the relevant talks in a constructive direction that optimises dealing with energy, climate change, and food shortage crises and developing countries’ access to financing, the presidency spokesman said.
Following their summit talks, the two leaders signed a declaration promoting bilateral ties to the level of strategic partnership at both official and popular levels, in reflection of the two nations’ common and extended civilisational heritage, in addition to signaling the availability of reciprocal will to develop bilateral ties.
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