Egyptian diplomacy achieved major successes in 2018

CAIRO, 27 Dec 2018: Egypt’s diplomacy seeks to proceed with its march to defend the Egyptian national interests via a precise review of its efforts, a plan of action and targets it sought to achieve throughout 2018 and those it seeks to reach in 2019.

The Egyptian diplomacy is moving in line with a comprehensive vision and strategy drawn up by the government and imposed by the political leadership on all state bodies and institutions.

On Palestine, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry continued to highlight Cairo’s firm stance about the Palestinian cause and in support of all the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights through meetings with Palestinian, regional and international parties.

The Egyptian diplomacy’s efforts in this regard seek to create a suitable atmosphere on the ground to revive the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and achieve the two-state solution in a way that helps restore the Palestinians’ historic and legitimate rights, topped by establishing an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

For Syria, the Foreign Ministry was keen to spotlight on Egypt’s balanced stance on the Syrian crisis. This stance is appreciated by the international community, as it is based on a number of principles that aim to hammer out stability in the country and preserve nation state.

Meanwhile, Egypt's former presidential aide for national and strategic projects visited Iraq in January 2018 to discuss means of fostering cooperation between the two countries, especially in the fields of trade, housing, health, manpower, electricity and transport.

In the same respect, Egypt took part in the Iraq Reconstruction Conference, held in Kuwait in February 2018 within the framework of Cairo’s efforts to participate via its public and private sectors in the country’s reconstruction process.