Egypt’s president met Tuesday with Qatar’s chief diplomat in Cairo.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani agreed on "intensifying joint consultation and coordination” to boost bilateral ties between the two nations, Sisi’s office said in a statement.
Sisi also received an invitation from Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to visit Doha.
The Qatari chief diplomat also held talks with Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry that discussed “the positive development” in ties between the two countries, according to a statement by Egypt’s Foreign Ministry.
Egypt's Foreign Ministry said the ministers discussed taking further measures to promote “the positive atmosphere” in their bilateral ties.
Shoukry said in televised comments Friday that the implementation of the AlUla Declaration between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Qatar would further accelerate restoring ties between Cairo and Doha.
Tuesday's statement by the Foreign Ministry said joint committees concluded a new round of talks and would continue discussing lingering issues to fully implement that agreement.
The two diplomats also discussed other regional topics, including a decade-long dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over a massive dam Ethiopia is building on the main tributary of the Nile River, the statement added. Egypt and Sudan deem the Ethiopian dam a major threat to their water security.
The Qatari foreign minister then left to Doha. He had arrived in Cairo late Monday from a trip to Khartoum where he met with Sudanese officials, his first visit to Sudan after an uprising led to the military’s ouster of Omar al-Bashir in April 2019.
The Qatari foreign minister also traveled to Libya earlier this week. He met with the newly appointed transitional government in Tripoli that has been struggling to unite the divided North African country before an election scheduled in December.
