Egyptian, Israeli Foreign Ministers hold plenary session of talks on activating peace process

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry had a plenary session of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on activating the peace process.

In a press statement on Monday, Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid said the two sides discussed efforts exerted to revive the Israeli-Palestinian process, as well as President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's initiative that was launched on May 17.

The initiative aims at making the dream of establishing an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders and with Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) as its capital come true, the spokesman said.

It also aims at achieving peace, security and stability for the Israeli people, he added. 

The Egyptian-Israeli talks focused on the outcome of the Paris-hosted ministerial meeting on the Middle East peace process that was held on June 3, the spokesman said.

The talks also took up a report by the international Quartet, in addition to the Egyptian foreign minister's visit to Ramallah city on June 28, in which he asserted Egypt's commitment to offer all support for the Palestinian and Israeli sides to resume peace negotiations, he added.

The two sides also discussed a number of files related to bilateral relations, topped by efforts to fight terrorism and the situation in the Deir El-Sultan monastery, affiliated to Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, in Al Quds, he said.

During their meeting, the Egyptian foreign minister posted Netanyahu on Egypt's vision of a host of regional issues and means of solving them, the spokesman concluded.

Source: MENA