Mrs. Clinton said last week that she would meet Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, along with leaders from Japan and Ukraine on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
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Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, sought the attention of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who among the leaders in NY for the 71st United Nations General Assembly.
“I don’t want to comment specifically on who but a couple of people are coming over”.
On Libya Sisi said Egypt is playing an active role in bringing the parties together and supporting its legitimate institutions, represented by the Presidential Council, National Unity Government, the House of Representatives, and the National Army.
Sisi added that Egypt is on top of the terror situation in Sinai and praised the close cooperation of his country with the United States and Israel in the battle against terror. The 2 US Presidential candidates tried to bolster their diplomatic credentials at the United Nations.
Clinton called that episode an “embarrassing worldwide incident”.
The meeting ended awkwardly after Trump said they never talked about his proposed border wall, but Peña Nieto said he told Trump during the meeting that Mexico would not pay for it.
Amid these abuses, al-Sisi has received favorable treatment from the Obama administration, which approved shipments of weapons and fighter jets to al-Sisi’s government.
Clinton’s meeting with Poroshenko, in the eyes of her aides, attempted to highlight the differences between the Democratic and Republican nominee on policy toward Moscow.
He suggested for an immediate and comprehensive halt to all hostile acts across all of Syria, paving the way for a political solution that ends bloodshed and preserves the territorial integrity and security of the country and its state institutions.
Rights groups and some Western nations have criticized Egypt’s human rights record in the three years since el-Sissi led the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, the country’s first elected leader.
Also, according to the sources, the two high officials have reiterated in their bilateral meeting the importance of organizing a second session of the Inter-governmental Committee for economic, scientific and technical co-operation in 2017 to ease the bilateral contacts.
They discussed at length “relations between the European Union and Egypt and the Egyptian President expressed his great satisfaction for the role that the Republic of Cyprus plays on the relations between Cairo and Brussels, as a country which fully comprehends the particularities of the region and the interests of the countries within it”. Al-Sisi is expected to participate in this meeting and give a speech.
It said that during the meeting Clinton and Poroshenko addressed Russian incursions into Ukrainian territory.
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During the meeting, Trump expressed his recognition of Egypt’s close relationship with Israel on countering terrorism, the campaign said.
