Sisi to deliver speech at UNGA, meet Trump

CAIRO – 20 September 2017: President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi will deliver a speech regarding UN peacekeeping operations in the UN General Assembly (UNGA) 72nd session and meet Trump on Wednesday.

As Egypt is the seventh largest contributor to peace missions across the globe, Sisi is due to initiate the UNGA meeting by reviewing Egyptian efforts to reform UN peacekeeping operations. Egyptian troops have taken part in 37 UN missions beyond the number of people working in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

Sisi’s speech will also tackle Egypt’s stance towards developing UN peacekeeping operations to stabilize peace and put an end to conflicts.

Moreover, Sisi is expected to attend the UN meeting to discuss the Libyan situation and seek a political settlement.

Before his meeting with Trump, Sisi will hold bilateral meetings with several leaders in the UN headquarter.

On Tuesday morning, world leaders gathered to attend the UN General Assembly summit to discuss several issues relevant to the Middle-East, Africa, the U.S., North Korea, Iran, Qatar, and the Palestinian-Israeli peace process.

President Sisi began his speech on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly by confirming Egypt’s deep commitment to the values of the UN.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi began his speech at the United Nations General Assembly with confirming Egypt’s deep commitment to the values of the U.N., being one of its founding members and the 7th largest contributor to peace mission across the globe.

He also said that his country has been elected six times to be a member of the Security Council.

Sisi also called on the Israelis and Palestinians to trust their leaderships and repeat the example of Egypt and Israel. He emphasized that security in the region is based on ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and addressed Palestinians by saying that it is important to believe in statehood alongside an Israeli state.

On the sidelines of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s participation in the United Nations General assembly 72nd session, President Sisi went on an interview with U.S. television channel FOX news on Tuesday.

FOX news anchor, Shawn Hannity began his interview with Sisi by praising his “courage” in raising that the idea that Islam needs a “religious revolution.”

More than once, Sisi was cited saying, “It doesn’t need common sense to understand that 1.6 billon people want to wipe out the rest of the world and think that they would make it alive on their own! Impossible.”

Asked for further elaboration, Sisi said that he was talking about the misconceptions and ideas adopted by some people that led to wide scale extremism, and that “I reiterated the significance of revolutionizing the religious speech and consecutively filtering the misconceptions and misinterpretations [in Islam].”