The meeting between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi lasted about an hour , on the sidelines of the COP27 World Climate Summit in Sharm el Sheikh.
During the summit, a note from Palazzo Chigi reads, there was talk of energy supply, renewable sources, climate crisis and immigration .
Not only that, also of the cases of Giulio Regeni , the Friulian researcher kidnapped and killed in Cairo in 2016 in circumstances still to be clarified, and of Patrick Zaki , the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna arrested in Egypt on accusations of a threat to security. national, inciting illegal protests, subversion, spreading false news, propaganda for terrorism, and released last December.
"The meeting touched on the question of the Italian student Regeni and cooperation to reach the truth and obtain justice," said the official spokesman of the Egyptian Presidency, Ambassador Bassam Radi.
The Egyptian president, added Radi, also expressed " his appreciation for the extension of bilateral relations between the two countries , and his aspiration that Ms. Meloni's visit to Egypt represents a new impetus for the development of those relations that they are based on deep historical links with political, economic, security and cultural dimensions ".
(Unioneonline / D)