Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi is visiting Qatar for the first time on Tuesday, 13 September, to meet with Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani following diplomatic reconciliation between the two countries, according to the state-run Qatari News Agency. This comes after Al-Thani’s visit to Egypt on 26 June 2022 – his first since the diplomatic discord – when both leaders met to reaffirm their commitment to bolstering political and economic cooperation, particularly in the field of energy. “[Al-Sisi’s visit] to the State of Qatar comes within the framework of the positive momentum witnessed in the relations between Doha and Cairo […] which will culminate in results that will achieve the aspirations of the peoples of the two brotherly countries in all fields, and will establish an unprecedented breakthrough in the process of cooperation between them,” Ambassador of Qatar to Egypt, Mubarak Al-Shafi, explained in an interview. Prior to renewed relations, Egypt was one of five Arab countries, along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Yemen that cut diplomatic ties with Qatar in June 2017, citing “charges [that] it supports terrorism, a reference to Islamist groups”. Qatar denied…
Egypt’s Al-Sisi to Visit Qatar for the First Time Since Reconciliation
September 13, 2022
