Egypt
Egypt will not accept military access to the Red Sea by countries that do not border it, Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Thursday, 15 October, while stressing that commercial access remains possible through agreements with coastal states. Speaking in an interview with Asharq Bloomberg, Abdelatty said Egypt rejects military access to the Red Sea by landlocked countries under any circumstances, maintaining that responsibility for governing the waterway should remain with countries along its coast. He distinguished between military and…
