Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty praised the history-honored relationship between Egypt and Togo at the official and popular levels.
This came during a meeting he had Saturday 24/8/2024 with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Togo Robert Dussey on the sidelines of their participation in a ministerial meeting of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in the Japanese capital.
According to foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid, the top Egyptian diplomat stressed at the meeting the importance of doing more to foster cooperation between the two countries in numerous domains and increase trade exchange, underlining the readiness of the Egyptian private sector to meet the various needs of the Togolese market for high-quality Egyptian products and implement infrastructure projects across Togo. Also, he expressed hope for completing the registration process required for ensuring the access of Egyptian medicines to the Togolese market, noting that this will contribute to providing the country with its needs of medicines and medical supplies at competitive prices.
Abdelatty reviewed the latest developments in the Horn of Africa and the challenges facing the countries of the region, as well as the developments in Libya and the crisis in Sudan. He also shed light on Egypt’s efforts to achieve calm and stop the war in the Gaza Strip as well as to contain the escalation in the region and ensure the flow of humanitarian aid to end the humanitarian crisis that the Palestinian people are enduring, stressing the necessity of finding a permanent and just solution to the Palestinian issue by the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
He affirmed as well the importance of strengthening joint coordination regarding regional and international issues of priority for both sides and expressed full support for efforts aimed at advancing the interests and priorities of African action. Also he called for coordinating unified African positions in international forums.
The spokesman said the meeting took up the situation in the Sahel region and West Africa and the security risks and common challenges facing the countries of the region, especially with regard to the growing threat of terrorist organizations.
According to him, the Togolese minister posted his Egyptian counterpart on the comprehensive approach that his country is adopting in the Sahel region with the aims of achieving its stability and improving its security and called for creating frameworks for cooperation between the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development and the Lomé Development Forum to address the growing risks that threaten Africa’s peace, security and stability.
