MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th April, 2019) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan as well as with Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Saturday and Sunday as part of his visit to Cairo and Amman.
Lavrov is visiting Egypt and Jordan on April 5-7. On Saturday, he will hold talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo prior to the meeting with Sisi in order to discuss ways to increase bilateral ties in trade, economy, culture and other sectors.
The agenda of the talks will also include the resumption of full-scale air travel between Russia and Egypt and the finalization of the work on security in Egyptian airports. Air traffic between Russia and Egypt was suspended in 2015 following the fatal crash of a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula, which Russia qualified as an act of terrorism.
Later on Saturday, the Russian minister is also expected to meet with the Arab League chief.
On Sunday, Lavrov will meet with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi and King Abdullah II in Amman to discuss the resettlement of Syrian refugees from Rukban camp, located in the US-controlled area close to the border with Jordan, as well as the progress in overcoming the decrease in the Russian-Jordanian bilateral trade.
In both countries, Lavrov plans to discuss joint efforts to settle the current conflicts in the middle East, including Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Palestine. The agenda of the talks will also focus on countering terrorism and extremism.
