Sisi holds meetings on sidelines of G20 Summit in New Delhi

CAIRO - 9 September 2023: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held a number of side meetings on the sidelines of the G20 summit taking place in the Indian capital, New Delhi.

 

He met with Fumio Kishida, the Japanese Prime Minister, Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of the Republic of South Africa, Othman Ghazali, the President of the Republic of the Comoros and the current President of the African Union, and Tedros Adhanom, the Director-General of the World Health Organization.

 

This was stated by Counselor Ahmed Fahmy, the official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic.

 

Presidency Spokesperson Ahmed Fahmy, said that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will speak at the G20 summit not only as President of Egypt, but also representing Africa and developing countries in light of Egypt's presidency of new partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) and the climate conference (COP 27).

He pointed out that with regard to the NEPAD file, Egypt will be shedding light during the G20 Summit on mobilizing funding for priority projects in Africa, including infrastructure projects, the development agenda, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, energy and food, along with the transition to the use of clean energy.

The official spokesman added that President Sisi will focus, during the G20 Summit, on ways to provide financing for clean energy projects such as green hydrogen, and ways to reform the global financial system and contain the defect in that system, noting that there is widespread international recognition of the necessity of reforming that defect in the global financial system, especially IMF and World Bank.