REGULAR CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIAN AND EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTRIES HELD IN CAIRO
Noyan Tapan
Dec 04 2007
CAIRO, DECEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. On December 1-3, a delegation led by
Gegham Gharibjanian, the RA Deputy Foreign Minister, paid a visit
to Egypt for the purpose of holding regular consultations between
Armenian and Egyptian Foreign Ministries. Noyan Tapan was informed
about it by the RA Foreign Ministry Press and Information Department.
During the negotiations held with Fatma Zahra, the Egyptian Deputy
Foreign Minister, on December 2, they discussed bilateral and regional
issues, including the process of fulfilment of agreements reached
during RA President’s official visit to Egypt in April this year.
The parties, highly evaluating the level of political relations between
the two countries and expressing satisfaction with the activization
of bilateral cooperation in a number of spheres in the recent years,
at the same time attached importance to activization of cooperation
in trade and economic, aviation, tourism, energy, agricultural spheres.
On December 3, the RA Foreign Ministry’s delegation was received by
Ahmad Abu al-Gheit, the Egyptian Foreign Minister. Regional issues were
discussed during the meeting. G. Gharibjanian presented the current
state of the Nagorno Karabakh problem, as well as Armenia-Turkey,
Armenia-Iran relations.
Ahmad Abu al-Gheit reaffirmed Egypt’s position in favor of giving an
exclusively peaceful solution to the Nagorno Karabakh problem.
The same day the RA Foreign Ministry’s delegation met with Fayza
Abu Al-Naga, the Minister of International Cooperation of the Arab
Republic of Egypt, the Co-chairman of the Armenian-Egyptian joint
Intergovernmental Commission. During the meeting, the Egyptian
party proposed holding the next sitting of the Armenian-Egyptian
Intergovernmental joint Commission in Yerevan, in April 2008. Issues
concerning preparatory work of the Intergovernmental joint Commission
were discussed in this connection. Fayza Abu Al-Naga said that besides
information technologies and health spheres, the Egyptian party also
shows much interest in the direction of starting cooperation in the
energy sphere. The necessity of establishing a direct air connection
between Cairo and Yerevan was also discussed with the Egyptian Minister
of International Cooperation.