Agriculture Minister Abdel Moneim El Banna met yesterday with his Saudi counterpart to discuss the kingdom’s bans on Egyptian agricultural products, Al Mal reports. The two ministers did not seem to make much headway on the issue beyond reviewing Egypt’s newly imposed quality control measures and reaffirming their commitment to cooperating with each other. Saudi Arabia had banned imports of Egyptian strawberries and peppers over concerns of residual pesticides, prompting several other GCC countries to follow suit. The Agriculture Ministry later moved to impose stricter regulations on agricultural exports to the GCC after the successive bans.

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