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Defence min Kammenos meets Egyptian President

Defence min Kammenos meets Egyptian President

Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who is on an official visit to Egypt, on Tuesday met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.

The two officials agreed to set up a joint steering committee for the cooperation between Greece and Egypt on defence issues.

The committee will be headed by the Defence ministers of the two counties and its works will start in the coming days.

The two officials also discussed the defence planning of the two countries as soon as Greece and Egypt’s EEZ is defined.

Kammenos is also scheduled to visit El Alamein to lay a wreath at the monument of the Greek soldiers that lost their lives in October 1942.