Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will travel to Doha for the first time today for a two-day official visit to meet Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the official Qatari Amiri Diwan, the office of the Emir, said.
President El-Sisi’s visit to Doha today reflects the level of excellence the relations between the two brotherly countries have reached, which culminated in Sheikh Tamim’s visit to Cairo in June, the official Qatari News Agency (QNA) quoted the Qatari Ambassador to Egypt Salem Mubarak Al Shafi as saying.
Tamim’s visit to Cairo was his first since the two countries resumed diplomatic ties following the Al-Ula Declaration, which ended a three-and-half-year diplomatic and economic boycott Egypt and three of the GCC members – Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE – had placed on Qatar.
President El-Sisi and Sheikh Tamim have met or talked on the phone on various occasions since signing Al-Ula agreement the latest of which was in July when they participated in the Jeddah Security and Development Summit along with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iraq, Jordan and the United States.
The Egyptian and Qatari leaders also met on the sidelines of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing in February.
Moreover, they also held a meeting last winter on the sidelines of the UN Conference of Parties on Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow few months after their meeting on the sidelines of the Baghdad Conference on Cooperation and Partnership in August.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
