Egyptian coup d'état

CAIRO - Serbian Deputy PM and Defence Minister Milos Vucevic began an official visit to Egypt on Monday with a meeting with the country's Minister of Defence and Military Production Gen Mohamed Zaki.

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.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Egypt on Thursday to meet with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. at the El Alamain Presidential Palace, and will be followed be a series of wider talks.

The prime minister will then visit the Greek Memorial at the site of the El Alamain battle.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic met with the Speaker of the Egyptian House of Representatives Hanafy El Gebaly on Thursday.

The parties agreed that the meeting reconfirmed an intensive political dialogue.

BELGRADE - Egyptian Ambassador to Serbia Bassel Salah hosted a ceremonial reception on Wednesday evening to mark Egypt's National Day and the 115th anniversary of the country's diplomatic relations with Serbia.

Egypt and Turkey have appointed ambassadors to each other's capitals for the first time in a decade to restore normal diplomatic relations, their foreign ministries announced on Tuesday.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has announced that Turkish citizens who wish to travel to Egypt will now be able to obtain a visa on arrival without any process in advance.

"Our citizens who travel to Egypt will be able to obtain their visas from the Egyptian border gates from now on," said a ministry statement on May 2.

Turkish and Egyptian top diplomats, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Sameh Shoukry, will have another meeting for the normalization of the ties in Ankara on April 13 with expectations that they will announce when the two nations will exchange ambassadors.

They highlight plans to supply Russia with artillery ammunition.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi reportedly ordered the production and shipment of the weapons, despite Egypt being one of America's closest allies in the Middle East.
According to leaked U.S. data, the secret delivery of 40,000 missiles to Russia is planned, the Washington Post writes.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad in Cairo on Saturday, a first since Syria's civil war broke out over a decade ago, Shoukry's office said.