{"id":650501,"date":"2017-03-26T03:56:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T03:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/03\/26\/sisi-visit-to-washington-strictly-political\/"},"modified":"2017-03-26T03:56:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T03:56:06","slug":"sisi-visit-to-washington-strictly-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/03\/26\/sisi-visit-to-washington-strictly-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisi visit to Washington strictly political?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The agenda for President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi\u2019s visit <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/03\/20\/what-were-tracking-this-week-95\/\"><strong>in April<\/strong><\/a><strong> to Washington <\/strong><strong>will be purely political<\/strong>, unnamed government sources tell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/news\/details\/1106572\">Al Masry Al Youm<\/a>. It is unlikely that a business delegation will accompany El Sisi on the visit, the sources say, and the newspaper quotes Egypt-U.S. Business Council chairman Omar Mohanna as noting there are no plans now to organize a delegation of investors to accompany the president to DC.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note: Investment Minister Sahar Nasr met with representatives of major US companies operating in Egypt, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moic.gov.eg\/Front\/Media\/NewsDetail.aspx?MedId=7998\">ministry statement<\/a>, citing executives from companies including <strong>GE, IBM, Microsoft, Pfizer, Uber, and Pepsico<\/strong>. The meeting was \u201cwith the Egypt-U.S. Business Council (EUSBC) chaired by Omar Mohanna, in presence of representatives from the American Chamber of Commerce,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agenda for President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi\u2019s visit in April to Washington will be purely political, unnamed government sources tell Al Masry Al Youm. It is unlikely that a business delegation will accompany El Sisi on the visit, the sources say, and the newspaper quotes Egypt-U.S. Business Council chairman Omar Mohanna as noting there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9285],"tags":[2398,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-650501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomacy-foreign-trade","tag-diplomacy-foreign-trade","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"e8a55b58-6ab4-4375-9336-2af87d622a4c","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[650468],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sisi visit to Washington strictly political? - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/03\/26\/sisi-visit-to-washington-strictly-political\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sisi visit to Washington strictly political?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The agenda for President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi\u2019s visit in April to Washington will be purely political, unnamed government sources tell Al Masry Al Youm. 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