Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has arrived on an official visit to Egypt, where he was received with military honors at Cairo airport by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail.
PM Orbán arrived in the North African country as head of a political and trade delegation, members of which include Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga, Minister of National Development Miklós Seszták, Minister of Defense István Simicskó, and Minister of Agriculture Sándor Fazekas. All ministers held bilateral talks with their Egyptian counterparts.
Bertalan Havasi, press chief of the Prime Minister’s Office, informed Hungarian news agency MTI that the prime minister would hold talks with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, president of Egypt, after which a number of agreements will be signed in their presence by representatives from the two countries.
One of the agreements is on a financing offer amounting to 900 million EUR for the manufacture of 700 railway carriages.
Following his meeting with the president today, the prime minister will hold talks with the secretary general of the Arab League, and in the evening he will deliver an address at the Egyptian-Hungarian business forum.
On Thursday, the final day of his visit, Orbán will meet religious leaders: Ahmed el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar; and the director of the Coptic Cultural Centre in Cairo.