CAIRO: US President Donald Trump is set to hold talks with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France this month, the Egyptian presidency said on Sunday.
In a statement, the presidency said El-Sisi is expected to hold a series of meetings with world leaders during the summit, “including a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump.”
It added that El-Sisi’s meetings would focus on “discussing ways to resolve international geopolitical crises and address their repercussions on trade, energy and supply chains.”
The G7 summit will be one of the first major international gatherings since the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran in late February, upending the Middle East and widening transatlantic tensions.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hosting the summit in the city of Evian on June 15-17, said that leaders from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates had been invited to discuss the Middle East war, according to the French presidency.
