الثلاثاء، 22 فبراير 2011

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy confirms his country's commitment to deepen cooperation with Egypt


Said Franco Frattini, Foreign Minister of Italy that his talks which took place Tuesday, with Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces dealt with the situation in Egypt and the Arab region.Frattini said - at a press conference Tuesday at the Italian Embassy in Egypt - it is assured the Marshal Tantawi, the country's commitment to further deepen cooperation closely between the two countries in order to keep Italy's first partner of trade in Egypt, pointing out that there was no warning or restrictions on the part of Italy to the Italian tourists visit the All tourist areas in Cairo, Luxor and Aswan and the Red Sea and others will soon be setup to organize charter flights to these areas, allowing Egypt to provide hard currency and employment for young people.
He pointed out that the number of Italian tourists in Egypt reached 5.1 million tourists during the period prior to the events of Tahrir Square, saying, "We expect that the rest of the EU to take the same initiatives."
He stated that Italy has launched an initiative yesterday to the European Union for the European Investment Bank to allocate 6 billion euros to support development projects in the Mediterranean region and the launch of an initiative to encourage the new generation of young people as there are new proposal by the Bank for Development and Reconstruction EU to provide a grant of one billion euros to support reconstruction projects in Mediterranean region.
He expressed his country's readiness to discuss the exchange of new quota of the debt owed by Egypt to Italy, which reported $ 120 million to turn it into infrastructure projects and negotiation to discuss the allocation of soft loans for young people in the areas of small and medium industries, pointing out that he also discussed with Field Marshal Tantawi, a new initiative for legal immigration and provide training and education Italian language in order to quickly integrate young people in Italian society.
The Frattini not to enter Italy in the process of achieving democracy in Egypt, expressing the hope that is rapidly achieving the constitutional amendments for the election of presidential and parliamentary elections.
He stated that he reviewed with Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States the situation in the Arab region is currently stressing the seriousness of the situation in Libya and the importance of national reconciliation to start a dialogue between the various forces.

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