Egypt’s president gives highest honor to visiting Indian prime minister as ties improve

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Published June 25, 2023 4:25 AM

By SAMY MAGDY
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt has bestowed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Egypt’s highest honor as the two nations tightened their partnership. El-Sissi welcomed Modi on Sunday morning in Cairo at the presidential palace and awarded the visiting prime minister the Order of the Nile, Egypt’s highest state honor. The leaders signed a declaration that elevated Egyptian-Indo ties to a strategic partnership. Modi arrived in Cairo on Saturday. He is the first Indian prime minister to pay a state visit to Egypt in more than two decades. His two-day stop came six months after el-Sissi was in New Delhi as an official guest at India’s Independence Day.

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