APA-Cairo (Egypt) Adama Bictogo is on an official working and friendship visit to Egypt, at the invitation of his Egyptian counterpart, Dr. Hanafy Ali Gebaly, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Upon arrival in Cairo on Saturday night, the President of the National Assembly of Côte d’Ivoire, Adama Bictogo, was welcomed at Cairo international airport by the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Dr. Hanafy Ali Gebaly.
From 18 to 20 February 2024, Adama Bictogo will hold talks with senior Egyptian officials on guidelines and measures to promote relations between the two countries. This will be his first official visit to Egypt as President of the National Assembly.
This visit is significant in that both parties wish to strengthen their cooperation. According to his agenda, Mr. Bictogo is due to meet, among others, the President of the Senate, Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razek, and Prime Minister Moustafa Kemal Madbouli.
On the sidelines of a series of meetings with investors and several Egyptian businessmen’s umbrella organisations, including the directors of the airline Egypt Air and the bus manufacturer MCV, Adama Bictogo
held talks on Sunday afternoon with the governor of Cairo, Khaled Abdel Aal.
A corporate film retraced the history of Cairo’s new administrative capital, which has been under construction in the Egyptian desert since 2015. Conceived as an ultra-modern city housing the tallest skyscraper in Africa, the Pharaonic project, which also involves foreign Egyptian companies, is being developed under the control of
the authorities.
The mission by the President of the National Assembly, Adama Bictogo, is intended to underline the determination of the senior leaders of both countries to continue to take relations between the two countries
to new heights and to consolidate diplomatic ties.
It also aims to proactively and actively broaden the foundations of bilateral relations and to promote effective and substantial cooperation between Côte d’Ivoire and Egypt in all areas.
The delegation led by Adama Bictogo includes several MPs: Maurice Kacou Guikahue, Vice-President of the National Assembly (PDCI, opposition), Oulaye Hubert, President of the PPA-CI parliamentary group (opposition, Laurent Gbagbo’s party).
He is also accompanied by Famoussa Coulibaly, special adviser to the President of the National Assembly, Mr Merhy Samy, President of the Côte d’Ivoire-Egypt Friendship Group, and Fofana Salimata, wife of Meite, member of the RHDP parliamentary group, the party in power in Côte d’Ivoire.
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