The Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs received on the 10th of December 2018, at its headquarters, a delegation from The Sino-Arab Cooperation Forum. The Delegation was headed by His Excellency Ambassador Li Chengwen, who was accompanied by a number of Representatives of the Chinese Embassy in Cairo; as a part of a his current visit to the region that included Mauritania, Tunisia, and Egypt.
The Egyptian Delegation included each of Their Excellencies: Ambassador Dr. Mounir Zahran, Chairman of the council; Ambassador Dr. Ezzat saad, Director of the Council; Ambassador Hisham El-Zamaity, Secretary General of the Council; Ambassador Ali El-Hefiny, Coordinator of the Council’s Permanent Committee of Asian Affairs; Ambassador Dr.Mohamed Badr ElDeen Zayed and Ambassador Magdy Amer, Council’s members.
The meeting included the discussion of a number of topics as follows:
– Chinese position towards the Sino-Arab cooperation, the Belt and Road Initiative, highlighting the developments witnessed by the Middle East region.
Both the Egyptian and Chinese sides shall seek the promotion of economic and security cooperation, information exchange, and also cooperation within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative for achieving development in the African Continent as well as in the region as a whole.
