Ukraine War Brings Egypt Closer To Britain
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Roshan Amiri
- . August 29, 2022
- . Update: August 29, 2022 5:44 pm
Ukraine–Egypt’s growing importance vis-a-vie the energy trade can be seen as how the United Kingdom is getting warm towards this MENA nation and signing up deals on other related possibilities for trade.
During a call between UK’s Boris Johnson and Egypt’s counterpart Abdel Fattah El Sisi, both discussed possibilities of increased cooperation in ways to collaborate over trade, business and education too.
While PM Boris Johnson is soon going to call it a day, he has plans to put into place a UK-Egypt Investment Council and some new investment opportunities in Egypt. The best compliment comes to Egypt for having mediated the movement of grains from Ukraine, something which is of paramount importance to the world that is gravely dependent on Ukraine for grain exports.
Undeniably, UK and Egypt are both reeling under pressure of grain shortages. What is worth noting is that UK primarily runs on imports and does not have too much of its own exports to boast about.
UK has already tied up with Egypt through its Climate Finance Accelerator that will support projects in Egypt to successfully implement low carbon projects. It will also connect to prospective investors.
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