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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Russian arms deal for Egypt

Egyptian newspaper said that Egypt will conclude an arms deal with Russia worth an estimated two billion dollars funded by Saudi Arabia , and the United States after the suspension of some military aid to Cairo after the coup, the third of July last year, led by Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi .


The newspaper " The Egyptian Today" special official sources as saying that Saudi Arabia had expressed willingness during the negotiations took place in the past few days on the financing deal Russian weapons worth two billion dollars , and presumably it was the focus of the talks, which took place Cairo during a visit to the ministers of defense and foreign Russia is the first of its kind in decades .
According to the newspaper, a meeting between Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi temporary Saudi Arabia Ambassador in Cairo Ahmed Qattan , 72 hours before the visit of the Russian delegation , which demanded Beblawi Saudi support for Egypt in the fields of military and economic .
Apart from this deal worth two billion dollars for , Egypt plans to agree on a deal with Russia arming the other - according to the newspaper - to the tune of ten billion dollars , with the support of the UAE , to be implemented gradually over five years .
The Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday afternoon during which they discussed aspects of military cooperation between the two countries , and stressed during the meeting that what he called " a new era of cooperation with Russia began today."
For his part, praised what he described Shoigu professionalism large Egyptian armed forces and their role in maintaining security and peace in the Middle East .
Prior to this contract , Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov , held a press conference after a session of talks in which we announced the resumption of military and economic cooperation between Moscow and Cairo .
Fahmi said that his country is looking forward to cooperation with Russia in recognition of the importance of the international political arena and its impact on many issues of concern to the Arab region .
And associated with Egypt and Russia has close relations in the fifties and sixties of the last century , and that before he signed former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with Israel peace agreement in 1979 , which secured U.S. aid annual military to Egypt worth 1.3 billion dollars , but relations between Egypt and the U.S. have seen a case of apathy after Washington decided to suspend a large part of its military aid to Egypt after the dismissal of the army of President Mohamed Morsi ....

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