Cairo - MENA
Agriculture Minister Salah Abdel Momen held Monday a meeting with Italy\'s Ambassador to Egypt Maurizio Massari on agricultural cooperation. The meeting reviewed the currently-implemented projects in Egypt along with reviewing the third batch of an Italian debt swap program, as about 50\\% of the program was allocated for agricultural projects. The Italian government has turned 100 million dollars of Egypt\'s debts into grants to fund development and infrastructure projects in Egypt.