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The President of the European Council, António Costa, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, representing the EU, met with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah El-Sisi at the first ever EU-Egypt summit.
This was also the first bilateral summit with any country in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Egypt is a key strategic partner in view of its essential role in promoting stability through peace initiatives and conflict resolution efforts in the Middle East region.
This meeting marks a significant milestone in our relationship. It shows how strong our partnership is.
President Costa
The summit was an opportunity to further deepen EU-Egypt bilateral relations and their political and economic partnership, with the aim of fostering the parties' shared stability, peace and prosperity.
The leaders underlined their shared ambition to cooperate on common global and regional matters, including the situation in the Middle East, Ukraine, multilateralism, trade, migration and security.
We emphasise our shared ambition to further deepen long-term strategic ties, cooperate in addressing our many global and regional common challenges, promote joint interests and renew partnership priorities.
The leaders issued a joint statement at the end of the summit.
Source: European Council