By Manal Abdel Fattah
Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman and Director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Minister Sameh Shoukry, Minister of Foreign Affairs, is heading to the Republic of Slovenia today, to chair the Egyptian side participating in the work of the second round of the Joint Ministerial Committee for Economic Cooperation between Egypt and Slovenia at the level of foreign ministers.
The official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained that Minister Shoukry is scheduled to hold discussions targeting various issues of bilateral relations between Egypt and Slovenia and ways to enhance them, in addition to consulting with his Slovenian counterpart, Tanja Vajon, about a number of regional and international files of common interest, foremost of which is the Palestinian issue, which Slovenia supports. Positions supportive of it have been clearly demonstrated since the beginning of the Gaza Strip crisis.
Ambassador Abu Zeid revealed that the Minister of Foreign Affairs will meet during the visit with Slovenian President Natasha Pierce Musar, as well as Prime Minister Robert Globe, and will also meet with the Slovenian Minister of Economy and Tourism, within the framework of coordination on ways to support and enhance cooperation relations between the two friendly countries.
The visit of the Egyptian Foreign Minister to Slovenia comes within the framework of the qualitative shift that bilateral relations have witnessed in recent years, the most prominent of which was the visit of former Slovenian President Borut Pahor to Egypt in December 2016, as that visit represented an important milestone in terms of strengthening the cooperation relations between the two countries and giving them more cooperation. Momentum.