CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatar’s governor will visit Egypt on Friday, his first trip to the country since Egypt and Qatar agreed last year to end a long-running regional dispute, diplomatic sources said.
Sheikh Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who last visited Egypt in 2015, will hold a formal meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday in Cairo, sources said.
He met with Sisi for the first time since the dispute at a summit in Iraq last year.
There was no immediate comment from the Qatar authorities.
The emir’s visit comes days after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Cairo and the announcement of $ 7.7 billion in investment agreements between Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
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Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain had boycotted Qatar since 2017 on charges of supporting terrorism, a reference to Islamist groups. Qatar denied the accusation.
With Egypt facing headwinds as a result of the war in Ukraine, his cabinet said in March that Egypt and Qatar had agreed to sign $ 5 billion worth of investment agreements.
(Report by Mohamed Waly; written by Aidan Lewis, edited by William Maclean)
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