French President Emmanuel Macron congratulated President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Egypt's hosting of the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, saying: "I congratulate my friend President El-Sisi, who managed to gather the world and solve some problems, especially those related to damage and losses, and this was a fundamental issue."
Macron added, during the opening of Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership, that the region is at the heart of major challenges, stressing that Iraq has become a scene of violations and interventions that destabilize the entire region.