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Yesterday was a busy news day, topped with Foreign Minister meeting with French representative to the UN in New York on GERD, SCA’s lifting of Ever Given seizure and amendments to pension laws.
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri had a meeting on Tuesday in New York with Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Nicolas de Rivière to explain Egypt’s stand toward the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue.
The Arab Parliament (AP) Speaker Adel bin Abdel Rahman al Assoumi called upon the UNSC to live up to its responsibilities in maintaining world peace and security and act to reach a legally binding and just agreement on the filling and operation of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
The AP speaker statement came day ahead of a planned Security Council meeting on GERD upon the request of Egypt and Sudan.
Ismailia Economic Court accepted Tuesday a request lodged by the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) to lift a three-month long judicial seizure of the Ever Given Panamanian ship, which ran aground in the Suez Canal and blocked it for almost a week in March.
The giant vessel is set to continue on its voyage and call at Rotterdam port in the Netherlands Wednesday.
Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine al-Kabbag said that retirees will be entitled to a pension calculated at 80 per cent of the last salary they received over a period ranging from 5 to 7 years or a few more.
Sakuji Yoshimura, the head of the Egyptian Japanese archaeological mission and president of Higashi Nippon International University, has completed the excavation of the second Khufu Boat, discovered beside Khufu pyramid in the Giza plateau.
The Public Prosecution ordered that an employee at Dokki traffic prosecution be remanded in custody for four days pending investigations on charges of child molestation.
Investigations revealed that the victim, a girl under the age of 18, was working for the employee at a company that sells mobile phones in which he has a stake.
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