Sisi calls media to create phobia against state’s failure

CAIRO – 25 July: President Abd al Fatah Al Sisi called the media to work on creating a state of phobia against the state’s failure during the second day of the fourth National Youth Conference in Alexandria on Tuesday.

“Many countries and entities tried to make our country fail, but their attempts didn’t succeed. The history will remember always the armed forces’ role in protecting their country,” Sisi added commenting on ‘establishing the failed-state’ session discussions at the Youth Conference.

He added that one of his presidency’s goals is to improve the Egyptian spirit, “even the Suez Canal Area Development Project targeted to improve the general spirit against failure and despair.”

Sisi said that the state is ready to finance a media project or a movie to improve patriotism amongst Egyptians.

“What happened during 2011 was capable of making the Egyptians fight with each other for about 50 or 60 years. It’s not only the armed forces, but other elements came together and prevented the country from falling into definite destiny,” Sisi said.

In earlier statements during the conference sessions, Sisi said that the economic reform decisions were ‘inevitable’.

“These decisions were our only way through gaining back our deserved-place in the world’s map. We had to face our problems seriously in order to take further steps forward.” Sisi said, adding that, “given our population numbers huge developments will take place after applying all the reforming measures needed.”

On Monday morning, President Sisi inaugurated the fourth National Youth Conference in Alexandria. Around 1,500 youth attended the conference, along with parliamentarians, heads of unions and universities, journalists, public figures, and representatives of the National Council for Women and the National Council for Human Rights.