Turkey, Egypt sign 17 cooperation agreements in technology, health, energy

Turkey and Egypt signed 17 cooperation agreements in the fields of technology, health and energy on Wednesday in the presence of the two countries' presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who started an official visit to Turkey earlier today. Erdogan and El-Sisi chaired the high-level meeting of the Strategic Cooperation Council at the Presidential Complex in the capital Ankara, followed by the signing ceremony of the agreements. The agreements included a memorandum of understanding on developing the industrial zone in the new Egyptian administrative capital and a land allocation agreement on developing the industrial zone in the new 6th of October City. Memoranda of understanding were signed in the field of competition policy, cooperation in the field of higher education, railways, civil aviation, information and communication technology, and scientific, economic and technical cooperation in the field of agriculture. The agreements also included memoranda of understanding on cooperation in the field of health and medical sciences, the field of supporting and developing small and medium enterprises, the field of tourism and culture, financial and economic issues, energy, labor and employment, environmental protection, and urban development, in addition to a memorandum between the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Egyptian counterpart. Presidents Erdogan and Sisi signed the joint declaration of the first meeting of the Turkey-Egypt High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council. The Egyptian President arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara on Wednesday afternoon on an official visit, in response to an invitation from his Turkish counterpart. Source: National Iraqi News Agency