CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi was in Saudi Arabia yesterday and will visit Russia tomorrow, in his first trips to both countries since winning a landslide election victory in May.
Sisi flew to Jeddah for talks with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and the official Saudi SPA news agency said he was welcomed on arrival by Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal.
Riyadh has been a key supporter of Egypt’s new authorities installed since Egypt’s military, then headed by Sisi, overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July last year.
Sisi had visited Moscow in February when he was Egypt’s army chief.
AFP
