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A White House official told Reuters on Sunday that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on April 3 in Washington. According to an Egyptian state-run newspaper, Sisi’s official visit will last from April 1 to 4. The two presidents spoke over the phone on January 23 and discussed counterterrorism efforts; Trump also expressed that he was “looking forward to the [Egyptian] President’s awaited visit to Washington which is being prepared for through diplomatic channels,” according to a statement released by the Egyptian presidency’s office.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will be in Washington beginning [Ar] on Wednesday for the White House’s anti-Islamic State summit. According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration invited more than 60 countries to participate in the two-day gathering, which will be led by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. The meetings will focus on “[accelerating] international efforts to defeat [the Islamic State] in the remaining areas it holds in Iraq and Syria,” according to the State Department. Minister Shoukry was invited to the meeting by Secretary Tillerson in a phone conversation on Saturday. Shoukry was last in Washington in late February, when he met [Ar] with Tillerson and National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.
In related news, a U.S. congressional delegation will visit Egypt next month, according to Egyptian MP Dahlia Youssef—a member of the Egyptian Parliament’s foreign relations committee. Youssef stated on Sunday that “the visit will come as part of efforts to put Egyptian-American relations back on a sound track.” The MP also reported that “an Egyptian parliamentary delegation will visit the United States very soon.”
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