Home Egypt | "Salman, Merkel, Teresa May, Johannes and Nicos" at the head of the participants of the Arab-European summit of my country

President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi opened today in Sharm El Sheikh, under the theme "Investing in stability", the Arab-European Summit in the presence of kings and leaders of 50 Arab and European countries. And the Summit will conclude this afternoon with a final declaration.

Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, leaders of European countries, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Romanian President Klaus Johannis, the current President of the European Union, Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis and the British Prime Minister Teresa Mae.

The League of Arab States expressed its conviction and confidence in the success of the first Arab-Arab summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, stressing that the participation of the leaders and heads of state and government of the Arab and European countries reflected the the regional and international position of Egypt and its timing in the context of the common challenges and concerns of the two regional blocs. Ambassador Hossam Zaki, Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, said the agenda of the first Arab-European summit was an open agenda that would allow both parties to present all the issues, underlining the importance of broad and high-level participation of leaders from dozens of Arab and European countries. Arab countries and the European Union.

The chief of staff of the secretary-general of the Arab League has described as "very good" the level of representation at this summit. He said the European presence was bigger than expected. There were more than 20 heads of state and government. Arab participation at the summit was very high. This summit reflects the great position of Egypt, which is very important, and participation means that the Arab-European dialogue is attracting interest for the level of leadership that is happening for the first time. "

Ambassador Zaki reiterated that this summit was not specific to a specific topic, in defiance of what has already been said by the European side, namely that it was A summit on migration, which would cover all areas of the Arab-European partnership in all its aspects. On the mechanism for discussion and strategic dialogue that will be launched between Arab and European leaders, Zaki said: "The topics, concerns and concerns will be set out in statements and will also be presented during the interactive session between the two parties. There are two sessions of data and an interactive session in which interviews are supposed to take place without a written declaration, between the leaders and each other, so as to leave all freedom to solve the problems on both sides ".

Ambassador Hossam Zaki said: "It is natural for the Arab side to talk about the current Arab crises and opportunities for cooperation with Europe, as well as all the issues that concern us and that we coordinate, as the theme of the fight against terrorism, he added that relations with the bloc are the most important in terms of population, technological progress, wealth and progress in the fields of education, health and all areas.

He said that the issue of stability, which is the theme of the summit, was the main objective of the Arab-European strategic dialogue organized by Egypt. He added that "the European side also hopes to take advantage of the fact that this dialogue will help to better understand the Arab reality and to consider it as its challenges and problems and to be able to help them." In the stability of this region, it was therefore the slogan of the summit (we invest in our stability), because whenever there was a stability in this Arab space, there was an interest for both parties.

However, Ambassador Hossam Zaki pointed out that the summit did not mean to agree on all issues. "It's not new to have controversial issues and talk about it," but that does not mean to reach a complete consensus. Will be published by consensus, and there is now a very good consensus on various issues. "

Regarding the Palestinian question, he said: "The European position is good and most European countries are good.One of our objectives is to maintain the cohesion of this position in the good shape that characterizes it. and we hope that European positions will develop individually or bilaterally and that each country will develop its position on the Palestinian question and achieve the full recognition of the State of Palestine, as Have made Sweden and some other countries. "Ambassador Mohamed al-Mounisi, former ambassador of Egypt to Qatar, said Qatar had not attended the Arab-European summit , claiming that the expression that had been circulated by all at the time of his work in Doha was that Qatar was still outside the squadron. . Al-Manaisi told Al-Watan that Qatar is a "little dwarf" with a complex of size, influence and culture, compared to other GCC countries, for example, it was nothing in Arabia Arabia, but Oman was also Oman. "Bahrain is the same thing," he said.

"Qatar thought that its revenues would change considerably, and the country's internal and external director, Hamad bin Jassim, who was the last prime minister, fulfilled the contract, so I was sure Qatar's quartet was years, not months. "He added:" Do not participate in Qatar was not a surprise, but was expected, and the invitation to Doha was a protocol. "

He stressed that it was difficult to attend the meeting, especially that the summit would talk about terrorism and resistance and that he was at the same time the main support and financier of terrorism not only in the Arab region and the Middle East, but also in European countries, stressing that Qatar was funding and that Turkey was supporting the weapon.