AJC Delegation Meets President Sisi in Cairo

CAIRO, Dec. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An AJC leadership delegation, in two days of meetings in Cairo, conferred with President Sisi and senior Egyptian officials on the importance of strengthening U.S.-Egyptian ties and the mutual benefits of increasingly close strategic cooperation between Egypt and Israel.

The delegation -- led by AJC President John Shapiro, Board of Governors Chair Harriet Schleifer, and Associate Executive Director for Policy Jason Isaacson -- discussed a range of regional and global political and security concerns in a two-hour conversation with the Egyptian President, with whom AJC has met repeatedly in Cairo and New York.

The 14-member delegation also met with Prime Minister Sherif Ismail Mohamed, Defense Minister Col. Gen. Sedki Sobhy Sayyid Ahmed and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, among other officials and civil society interlocutors.

SOURCE American Jewish Committee

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