Dr Khalid El Enani, Minister of Antiquities met on Thursday with Helen Whately, British Secretary of State of Arts, Heritage and Tourism on his current visit to the United Kingdom.
Ambassador Tariq Adel, Egypt’s envoy the UK attended that meeting.
Dr El Enani was on an official visit to London to inaugurate the exhibition of King Tutankhamun in the British capital.
The exhibition was mounted in Satchi Hall for art.
Over their meeting, the Egyptian and British ministers discussed ways to bolster cooperation between the two countries in antiquities and scientific fields along with exchange expertise.
Egypt seeks to benefit from the prolonged expertise of the UK in sectors such as keeping the antiquities sound and upgrading museums and archeological sites.
Dr El Enani also debated with the British minister and other senior officials how to prevent auctioning of the Egyptian in hall in London.
He urged those officials to increase cooperation between the two countries to fight illegal selling of the Egyptian antiquities to save the artifacts from smuggling.
A workshop including experts of Egypt and the UK will be held in December to draft a road map and prepare a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to secure the Egyptian antiquities from selling at auction halls in the UK.
The Egyptian minister was invited to the head of headquarters and library of Society of Exploring Egypt which was established in the 19th century in London.
The society has nine mission working in Egypt and publish respected scientific periodical in archeology.
It is worth to mention that Dr El Enani will open exhibition of King Tutankhamen tomorrow, Friday.
The British people celebrate the collection of the young king as it landed in London which is the third stop of a tour across the world tour.
That collection was on show in Los Angles, USA and Paris, the capital city of France.
Streets of London and the stations of the Tube were decorated with posters carrying photos and some items of collection of the young king.
Also shops, buildings and telephone booths hoisted banners of King Tutankhamun.
Exhibition of the Pharanoic King attracted some 1.7 million visitors when it came to London in 2007.
Most of the British publications prepared photo files about the young king who is also known as the Golden Pharaoh.
The exhibition includes 150 artifacts such as wooden boxes and urns made of the alabaster.
Contributed by Ahmed Moamar
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