El Sisi meets Uruguay’s president in Cairo

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met yesterday with Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez, marking the first official visit from a Uruguayan president since 1932, according to an emailed Ittihadiya statement. The two leaders discussed the trade liberalization agreement between Egypt and the Mercosur region, which Vázquez said “will reinvigorate economic relations between the two countries, especially in the fields of agriculture, livestock and energy.”
Vázquez and El Sisi also looked at cooperating in the food and agriculture sectors.