Egypt will participate in a meeting of the strategy group of the Global Coalition against ISIS to be held on Tuesday in London, according to Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid, who will head the delegation.
Prior to the delegation's departure to London, Abu Zeid indicated that the meeting is important especially after ISIS has been defeated in Syria and Iraq.
The spokesperson stated that the meeting will be held amid the international consensus on defeating ISIS and an agreement that the terrorist organization can only be fully eradicated once its extremist ideas are wiped out.
Abu Zeid added that the meeting will discuss an intellectual and media plan to confront ISIS and other terrorist organizations by discussing the ways to face extremist dialogue in social media or on the dark web or secured information networks used by them to recruit, fund or obtain weapons.
The meeting also will focus on how different religious institutions can provide information networks with ideas and dialogue to refute and correct the misconceptions spread by ISIS about Islam.
It will highlight the responsibility of the media and the different roles of journalism to counter terrorism and attend to media coverage that promotes ISIS and other terrorist content.
He concluded that the delegation will discuss during the meeting Egypt's efforts in facing terrorism, referring to the 2018 Sinai comprehensive operation, as well as the role of al-Azhar institution and Dar al-Iftaa to confront extremist ideas.
The meetings will include senior officials from the member states and will discuss the communication strategy regarding combating extremism and all important developments with regard to global terrorism, concluded Abu Zeid.
