Sisi heads to French Parliament on 3rd day visit to Paris

PARIS – 25 October 2017: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has a bust agenda on Wednesday, his third day of his visit to Paris, as he is scheduled to visit the headquarters of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, French Parliament and hold high-level meetings.

At the French Ministry of Finance, Sisi is set to meet with a group of big French companies. He will then head back to his residence in Paris to receive the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD.)

His program on Wednesday concludes with a visit to the French Parliament’s National Assembly and the Senate.

On Tuesday, Sisi and his French Counterpart Emmanuel Macron held a press conference following bilateral talks, where both leaders stressed on sharing a close strategic partnership.

Sisi also met with high-level French officials and the CEOs of French Naval Group and France’s national state-owned railway company, where he discussed ways of boosting cooperation in the future in the field of military navy industry and railways.

During the press conference, Sisi said that Egypt and France signed deals of cooperation in different fields worth €400 million.