MADRID, 18 March (EUROPA PRESS) –
Turkey and Egypt, Egypt’s Islamist president Mohammed Morsi’against 2013’They are preparing an official meeting between their own leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Abdelfatá al-Sisi, as a new step in normalizing relations that deteriorated after the military coup in .
Erdogan and Al Sisi in Qatar in November last year’World Cup held in’The two countries met for a short time as they began to re-establish their commercial ties during the opening of the .
Until then, Erdogan’Egypt’s president 2019’Both leaders maintained a wide distance after he harshly criticized his Islamist predecessor, who died in prison, for leading the coup d’etat. .
Now, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is in Cairo this Saturday.’He announced that both countries are “working to facilitate a meeting between the two heads of state” – the first visit by a minister of his own since then. 14 May’A date to be “agreed on” that could happen before or after the presidential election in the United States.
His Egyptian counterpart, Samé Shukri, described the talks this Saturday as “deep, candid and transparent”, as he appreciated at the subsequent press conference convened by the Egyptian newspaper. ‘al-ahram’He reiterated the will of both countries to “normalize relations after the events of recent years”.
Shukri assured that “the relations between the two countries have not deteriorated” and reminded that there are diplomatic contacts at the level of business executives, although there is no date yet for the re-establishment of relations at the ambassadorial level.
“We will address this issue when the time comes, and because this path we have adopted bears fruit,” the Egyptian minister said.
Source: Noti Merica
