Assistant Foreign Minister for US Affairs Ambassador Sameh Aboul-Enein has organized an event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Egyptian-Canadian relations, according to a statement by the Ministry Foreign Affairs.
A group of officials, parliamentarians, and businesspeople from Egypt and Canada attended the celebration, which included a farewell for the Canadian Ambassador to Cairo Louis Dumas, who assumed his duties in 2021.
The event attendees included former minister of foreign affairs and Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Mohamed Orabi; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hazem Omar; President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo Tamer Tawfik; President of the Canada-Egypt Business Council Motaz Raslan; Chairman of Methanex Egypt — the largest Egyptian-Canadian gas supply group — Mohammad Shendi; Egypt Ambassador in Ottawa Ahmed Hafez; and Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister for North America Minister Plenipotentiary Tamim Khallaf.
During the event, Ambassador Aboul-Enein reviewed the development of Egyptian-Canadian relations, outlining various areas of cooperation in economy, politics, trade, education, and culture.
The attendees discussed promising Canadian investment opportunities in Egypt, ways to develop cooperation in education and culture, and prospects for political and economic collaboration.
For his part, Ambassador Dumas expressed gratitude for the foreign ministry's efforts to advance cooperation files between the two countries, praising the depth and breadth of Egyptian-Canadian relations across various fields.
Egypt is Canada’s number one partner in Africa in trade, with approximately $1.9 billion in bilateral trade, according to previous remarks by the Canadian ambassador to Al-Ahram Weekly.
The event also addressed the role of the Egyptian community in Canada in strengthening community ties between the two peoples and its positive contributions to Canadian society.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
