Sisi, Abbas to hold summit on Monday in Cairo

CAIRO – 10 December 2017: Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi invited his Palestinian counterpart President Mahmoud Abbas to hold a consultative bilateral summit in Cairo on Monday, Presidency spokesperson Bassam Radi said on Sunday.

The summit is scheduled to tackle developments of the latest decision of the U.S President Donald Trump of recognizing the Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It also will discuss means of dealing with the crisis in a way that preserves rights of Palestinians, their national sacred and legal right in establishing an independent state and a capital of the Eastern Jerusalem.

For his part,the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived Cairo on Sunday evening in a two-days visit upon an invitation by President Sisi in order to meet to dicuss latest developments, the Palestinian ambassador to Cairo and its permanent representative to the Arab League Diab al-llouh said.