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President Sisi also stressed that Egypt is exerting intensive efforts aimed at calming, ceasing the fire, and delivering humanitarian aid, and working, at the same time, to protect the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state on the lines of June 4, 1967, in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions, said the Egyptian Presidency in a statement.
The Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, Ibrahim Khreisha, said that the visit of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Cairo comes at a very sensitive time and circumstance
During the talk, there was an emphasis on the pivotal role assumed by the Palestinian National Authority and on the vital need to take all measures to provide support to the Palestinian Authority, in order for it to carry out its role.
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi invited Abbas to participate in the Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian tripartite summit that will be attended by Jordanian King Abdullah II in the city of El Alamein, Al- Louh added.
The Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Turkey Faed Mustafa said that an official reception ceremony will be held for President Abbas at the Turkish Presidential Complex in the capital, Ankara.
A number of Palestinian officials, including Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, received the President upon his arrival to the city.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a group of the Egyptian Armed Forces in Bir el Abed city in North Sinai governorate.
Shtayyeh, who is heading a big ministerial delegation, visits Egypt at the invitation of his Egyptian counterpart Mostafa Madbouli.
The Arab foreign ministers council started an emergency meeting on Sunday at the request of Abbas and Abul Gheit to discuss the latest Palestinian developments.
The government would continue to carry out its duties until a new one was formed, said am official statement issued after a weekly cabinet meeting.
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi discussed in a phone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the reconciliation between the two rivals Fatah and Hamas.
The border will re-open on Sunday, according to a statement from the Egyptian government on Friday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday greeted Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi on the 66th anniversary of the July 23 Revolution.
Abbas sent a cable of greetings to Egyptian President el-Sisi on the fifth anniversary of the June 30 Revolution.
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held on Monday a phone call with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas to inquire after the Palestinian leader's health.
Erekat said the president is expected to leave hospital on Monday or Tuesday.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday offered an apology after he was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European Jews had been caused by their conduct, not by their religion.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the ousted president Mohamed Morsi had offered the Palestinians a piece of the Sinai Peninsula during his rule.
Modi on Saturday became the first Indian prime minister to visit the occupied West Bank for talks with Palestinian president Abbas as part of a Middle East tour.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas under the auspices of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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