FM Abdelatty reviews Egypt's efforts to ensure sustainability of Gaza ceasefire agreement

CAIRO - 5 February 2025: Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Badr Abdelatty received Wednesday, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Palestine Mohamed Mustafa.

 

Ambassador Tamim Khilaf, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Minister Abdelatty stressed during the meeting Egypt's full support for the Palestinian government and its reform plans.

 

Abdelatty further stressed the importance of empowering the Palestinian Authority politically and economically, and assuming its duties in the Gaza Strip as part of the occupied Palestinian territories.

 

Minister Abdelatty reviewed Egypt's efforts aimed at ensuring the sustainability of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza and implementing all its provisions in its three time periods.

 

With regard to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the importance of moving forward with early recovery projects and programs, removing rubble, and providing humanitarian aid at an accelerated pace was emphasized during the meeting, without the Palestinians leaving the Gaza Strip, especially with their adherence to their land and their refusal to leave it.

 

The Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Palestine presented an integrated vision of the plans prepared for early recovery programs and removing rubble in cooperation with international institutions, in a way that paves the way for the reconstruction phase and the return of conditions to normal, which was the subject of agreement.

 

Minister Abdelatty stressed Egypt's support for the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, emphasizing the need to strive to reach a permanent and just political solution to the Palestinian issue through the two-state solution and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in a way that prevents the recurrence of repeated cycles of violence in a final and permanent manner.