The Arab Summit is very important amid big challenges facing Arab countries, especially those pertaining to energy issue or food chains supplies, said Presidential Spokesman Bassam Radi.
Radi added in statements in Algiers on Tuesday 1/11/2022 that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s address to the Arab Summit will reflect Egypt’s positions over the past years and calls for adopting a specific approach in overcoming challenges facing the region.
The approach calls for adhering to a nation state notion, promoting central governments, ending foreign interferences and military militia and sticking to sovereignty of lands and activating determination and will of peoples, said the spokesman.
The activation of this approach requires serious political determination, Arab-Arab collective action and joint international, Arab action, in addition to setting any interests aside, Radi pointed out.
President Sisi will also tackle during the summit the issue of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam from a wider prospective of water security for Arab countries.
The president will say Egypt is not against the construction of the dam or development of countries, Radi said, adding it is a must to have an international law for cross-border rivers.
The spokesman mentioned Egypt engaged in negotiations with Ethiopia twelve years ago to reach a binding and legal agreement on the operation of the dam.
Foreign meddling is an obstacle to all efforts aimed at solving the Libyan issue, he noted.
Radi went on to say the Palestinian cause tops all issues upon which the president will focus during the summit.
Speaking about relations with Algeria, Radi said Egypt is appreciating brotherly and profound ties with Algeria, hailing historical, bilateral relations between the two countries.
Meanwhile, President Sisi will meet with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and have a number of other bilateral meetings.
Source: State Information Service Egypt