PM, Japanese minister discuss bilateral relations

CAIRO – 9 July 2017: Prime Minister Sherif Ismail met on Sunday with the visiting Japanese minister of state for economic, trade and industrial affairs.

They discussed means of boosting relations between Egypt and Japan in all fields.

The meeting was attended by Egyptian Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker and the Japanese ambassador in Cairo.

Ismail hailed high-level cooperation between Egyptian and Japanese governments in several projects, including the Grand Egyptian Museum.

The prime minister also urged the Japanese side to invest in the petrochemical complex project in Suez.

The Japanese minister, meanwhile, stressed his country's keenness on boosting prospects of cooperation with Egypt and launching more projects in Cairo in the coming period.