India-Egypt agree to accentuate cooperation, maintain periodic talks

By Associated Press

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Sunday bestowed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Egypt’s highest honor as the 2 nations tightened their partnership.

El-Sissi welcomed Modi on the presidential palace in Cairo with the Order of the Nile, the Egyptian presidency stated in a press release. The leaders signed a declaration elevating Egyptian-Indo ties to a “strategic partnership,” underneath which the 2 nations agreed to accentuate their cooperation and maintain periodic talks, the assertion stated.

Egypt and India share deep ties that date again to the Fifties, when the 2 nations performed key roles in founding the Non-Aligned Movement, which had sought another path to siding with both communism or capitalism on the peak of the Cold War.

Modi, who arrived in Cairo Saturday, is the primary Indian prime minister to pay a state go to to Egypt in additional than twenty years. His two-day cease got here six months after el-Sissi was in New Delhi as an official visitor at India’s Independence Day.

Modi additionally invited the Egyptian chief to attend the G-20 summit, which India will host in September.

Following his talks with el-Sissi, Modi visited a historic mosque, Cairo’s Al-Hakim, which was just lately renovated with the assistance of the India-based Dawoodi Bohra group. He additionally paid tribute to Indian troopers who died in World War I and are buried within the Heliopolis War Cemetery in Cairo.

Modi’s journey to Egypt has targeted on strengthening bilateral ties between Cairo and New Delhi. The prime minister stated each nations have been shifting swiftly to extend bilateral commerce to $12 billion yearly inside 5 years — that is up from $7.3 billion in 2021-22.

“This is a remarkable year for our shared relations,” Modi advised a gathering with Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly on Saturday.

Earlier this 12 months, each nations agreed to spice up commerce cooperation. India, the world’s most populous nation, is among the high 5 importers of Egyptian merchandise, together with crude oil and liquefied pure gasoline, salt, cotton, inorganic chemical substances, and oilseeds. Major Indian exports to Egypt embrace cotton yarn, espresso, herbs, tobacco, lentils, car elements, ships, boats, and electrical equipment.

El-Sissi and Modi, who got here to energy of their counties in 2014, have in recent times cultivated nearer relationship. And over the past 16 months, they resisted stress type the West to sentence the Russian struggle in Ukraine. Both Egypt and India have decades-old ties with the Kremlin.

“There is a change in the global geopolitical and geoeconomic atmosphere wherein both countries wish to play a defining role,” India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh stated throughout a go to to Cairo in September. “Egypt’s geostrategic location acts as a connecting link between Africa, West Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe and is also an important country from the Indo-Pacific point of view.”

Modi arrived in Cairo Saturday after a four-day journey to the United States, the place he held talks with President Joe Biden and high administration officers, addressed the Congress and met with high American executives.

His assembly with el-Sissi got here as world consideration targeted on a quick riot by the pinnacle of Wagner Group, seen as the best problem to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his greater than twenty years in energy.

Neither Modi not el-Sissi instantly commented on the riot.

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Sunday bestowed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Egypt’s highest honor as the 2 nations tightened their partnership.

El-Sissi welcomed Modi on the presidential palace in Cairo with the Order of the Nile, the Egyptian presidency stated in a press release. The leaders signed a declaration elevating Egyptian-Indo ties to a “strategic partnership,” underneath which the 2 nations agreed to accentuate their cooperation and maintain periodic talks, the assertion stated.

Egypt and India share deep ties that date again to the Fifties, when the 2 nations performed key roles in founding the Non-Aligned Movement, which had sought another path to siding with both communism or capitalism on the peak of the Cold War.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Modi, who arrived in Cairo Saturday, is the primary Indian prime minister to pay a state go to to Egypt in additional than twenty years. His two-day cease got here six months after el-Sissi was in New Delhi as an official visitor at India’s Independence Day.

Modi additionally invited the Egyptian chief to attend the G-20 summit, which India will host in September.

Following his talks with el-Sissi, Modi visited a historic mosque, Cairo’s Al-Hakim, which was just lately renovated with the assistance of the India-based Dawoodi Bohra group. He additionally paid tribute to Indian troopers who died in World War I and are buried within the Heliopolis War Cemetery in Cairo.

Modi’s journey to Egypt has targeted on strengthening bilateral ties between Cairo and New Delhi. The prime minister stated each nations have been shifting swiftly to extend bilateral commerce to $12 billion yearly inside 5 years — that is up from $7.3 billion in 2021-22.

“This is a remarkable year for our shared relations,” Modi advised a gathering with Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly on Saturday.

Earlier this 12 months, each nations agreed to spice up commerce cooperation. India, the world’s most populous nation, is among the high 5 importers of Egyptian merchandise, together with crude oil and liquefied pure gasoline, salt, cotton, inorganic chemical substances, and oilseeds. Major Indian exports to Egypt embrace cotton yarn, espresso, herbs, tobacco, lentils, car elements, ships, boats, and electrical equipment.

El-Sissi and Modi, who got here to energy of their counties in 2014, have in recent times cultivated nearer relationship. And over the past 16 months, they resisted stress type the West to sentence the Russian struggle in Ukraine. Both Egypt and India have decades-old ties with the Kremlin.

“There is a change in the global geopolitical and geoeconomic atmosphere wherein both countries wish to play a defining role,” India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh stated throughout a go to to Cairo in September. “Egypt’s geostrategic location acts as a connecting link between Africa, West Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe and is also an important country from the Indo-Pacific point of view.”

Modi arrived in Cairo Saturday after a four-day journey to the United States, the place he held talks with President Joe Biden and high administration officers, addressed the Congress and met with high American executives.

His assembly with el-Sissi got here as world consideration targeted on a quick riot by the pinnacle of Wagner Group, seen as the best problem to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his greater than twenty years in energy.

Neither Modi not el-Sissi instantly commented on the riot.