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Morsy in Ankara next week

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September 24th, 2012

Turkey has invited President Mohamed Morsy to Ankara early next week, diplomatic sources said on Monday. The goal of the visit would be to discuss improving bilateral relations and aligning the two nations’ positions on regional and international issues, especially in regards to Palestine and Syria.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu extended the invitation during his visit to Cairo last week. During his trip Davutoglu also stated that Turkey has allocated US$2 billion to support the Egyptian economy through investments and making a deposit at the Egyptian Central Bank.

Sources also stated that Morsy would attend the General Conference of the Justice and Development Party (JDP), Turkey’s ruling party, along with other world leaders on 30 September.

The JDP is an Islamist party influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Edited translation from MENA

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Ganzouri relaxes visa rules for North Africans, Turks

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June 7th, 2012

Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri has declared Algerian tourists exempt from the visa system in Egypt, diplomatic sources told the Algerian daily Al-Nahar. The new rule goes into effect next week and will also apply to Moroccans, Tunisians, Turks and Azerbaijanis.

Only Algerian tourist groups coming to Egypt through tourist agencies by air, land or sea will be exempted from the visa system, however, while tourists entering the country individually will not.

The change is intended to help revive the tourism sector, which witnessed major setbacks due to a deteriorated security situation after the ouster of President Mubarak, said Al-Nahar.

Algerian students who left Egypt after the 25 January revolution largely refuse to come back, said the newspaper, adding that the number of Algerians now in Egypt is as low as 3,500. 

Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm

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Sources: No notice from Israel over conversion of ambassador’s home into new embassy

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April 5th, 2012

Israel has “not officially informed the Foreign Ministry that the Israeli ambassador’s home in Cairo was chosen as the new headquarters for the Israeli Embassy,,” diplomatic sources said on Thursday.

The sources added that according to diplomatic custom, any country in the world is entitled to use its ambassador’s residence in the manner it deems most suitable.

The sources said they believed the Israeli decision to be a temporary one.

In response to a question on whether or not the necessary security requirements were available to convert the Israeli ambassador’s place of residence into an embassy, the sources confirmed that Egyptian security services would consider the situation if Israel officially informs it that it has been chosen as the new embassy headquarters.

In a report on Wednesday, Israeli state television’s Channel 10 said the Israeli Foreign Ministry allocated the ground floor of the Israeli ambassador’s villa in Maadi for embassy activities after the failure of efforts to obtain a new embassy to replace the one that was vandalized by Egyptian protesters in September 2011.

Angry Egyptian protesters raided the embassy in September following an Israeli border raid that had killed six Egyptian security officers days earlier. The killings provoked calls to revoke the peace treaty signed by both countries in 1979.

Translated from Al-Masry Al-Youm
 

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UNESCO Refuses to Remove Syria From Human Rights Committee

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March 10th, 2012

The UN cultural agency UNESCO condemned Syria on Thursday for its crackdown on a year-long uprising but did not expel Damascus from its human rights committee as some Western and Arab countries had demanded, diplomatic sources said.

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