Dec 17, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
Cairo.
President
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received on Sunday the credentials of Turkey’s Ambassador
to Egypt Salih Mutlu Şen a few months after the two countries agreed to restore
their diplomatic relations and elevate them to ambassadorial level.
Early in July, Egypt and Turkey announced appointing ambassadors to each other for the first time in a decade in order to fully restore their diplomatic relations.
As per the
mutual decision, Amr El-Hamamy was appointed as Egypt's ambassador to Ankara
while Salih Mutlu Sen became Turkey’s ambassador to Cairo.
El-Hamami
presented his credentials to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last
September.
Egypt and
Turkey had held talks in Ankara and Cairo since 2021 to re-establish their
relations after a decade of strained ties following the ousting of the Muslim
Brotherhood-affiliated President, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.
The upgrade
of diplomatic relations between the two countries comes as per the directives
of the Egyptian and Turkish presidents and aims to re-establish normal
relations between the two countries, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
said in a statement.
Moreover,
Sisi received the credentials of ambassadors from 19 countries to Cairo besides
Turkey, including five Arab countries.
Arab
ambassadors are Bahrain’s Ambassador Fawzia bint Abdulla Zainal, Mauritania’s
Ambassador Houssein Sidi Abdellah, Qatar’s Ambassador Tariq Ali Faraj Al
Ansari, Algeria’s Abdelaziz ben Ali Al-Sharif, and Yemen’s Ambassador Khaled
Mahfouz Bahah.
Sisi also
received credentials from the ambassadors of Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands,
Romania, and Latvia in Europe and of Korea, Bangladesh, and Kyrgyzstan in Asia.
Regarding
the African continent, Sisi received credentials from the ambassadors of
Senegal, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
Furthermore,
ambassadors of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, and Mexico presented their
credentials to President Sisi.
Sisi
welcomed the new ambassadors, wishing them success in their duties, the
Egyptian Presidency said in a statement. He stressed Egypt’s keenness to
enhance bilateral relations with their countries and continue the ongoing
consultations on various issues of mutual concern, write the Egyptian media
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