FM highlights ties with Egypt in meeting with counterpart

Egypt is a country with which Greece "maintains traditional ties, a country that is Greece's strategic partner, and with which we have developed excellent bilateral relations in recent years," Greek Foreign Minister Georgios Gerapetritis said on Friday, after concluding his meetings in El Alamein with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry.

Gerapetritis was part of a delegation accompanying Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on his visit to Egypt for talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Thursday, and Shoukry had invited him to extend his visit by one day to continue discussions at ministerial level, diplomatic sources said earlier on Friday.

The two ministers held a working breakfast earlier on Friday as a follow-up to the discussion held between the Greek and Egyptian delegations on Thursday. After the conclusion of meetings on Friday, Gerapetritis...