Cairo - Al sharq Tribune - spokeman for the Egyption presidency
Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, H.E. Ayman Al Safadi. The meeting was also attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration, and Egyptian Expatriates, Dr. Badr Abdelatty, and Jordan’s Ambassador in Cairo, Ambassador Amjad Al-Adailah. Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Ahmad Fahmy, said Mr. Al Safadi conveyed to President El-Sisi the greetings of his brother, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein. President El-Sisi emphasized that Egypt values its close historical relations with Jordan, at both the official and popular levels, as well as their joint efforts to further advance their bilateral cooperation, so as to fulfill the aspirations of their peoples for development and prosperity. The meeting focused on the latest Egyptian and Jordanian efforts to achieve calm in the region. The two countries affirmed their unequivocal and firm position on the necessity to intensify earnest international efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, and to ensure the delivery of adequate quantities of needed humanitarian aid and relief to save the region from a massive humanitarian crisis. They stressed that an independent Palestinian State, along the June 4, 1967 borders, is the fundamental guarantee for achieving lasting peace and stability in the region. They also underscored the danger of the path of military escalation, which further complicates the situation and poses a grave threat to regional security and the well-being of the peoples in the region.
