Sisi, Mitsotakis Discuss Libya, Eastern Mediterranean

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received, on Wednesday, a phone call from Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and discussed Libyan file and Eastern Mediterranean issues, according to Presidency Spokesperson Bassam Rady.

Sisi and Mitsotakis discussed several areas of bilateral cooperation, especially in the economic, security and energy fields. In addition, there was an exchange of views on regional issues, particularly the updates of the Libyan file, in the Eastern Mediterranean.

"The Greek Prime Minister expressed his country’s keenness to enhance joint cooperation with Egypt at the bilateral level or within the framework of the trilateral cooperation mechanism between Egypt, Greece and Cyprus," Rady said.

For his part, Sisi affirmed Egypt’s pride in all aspects of constructive cooperation as well as the signs of progress witnessed in Egypt-Greece bilateral or trilateral cooperation with Cyprus. Hence, he praised the progress achieved through the tripartite framework.

He also affirmed Egypt’s keenness to promote cooperation with Greece in furtherance of the mutual interests of the two friendly nations.