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Egypt army chief el-Sissi heads to Moscow
Army chief Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, who is likely to become Egyptâs next president, headed to Russia accompanied by Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation, the army said
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rmy chief Abdel Fattah El-Sissi, who is likely tobecome Egypt's next president, headed to Russia accompanied by Foreign MinisterNabil Fahmy on Wednesday to discuss bilateral cooperation, the army said.
Field Marshal Sisi, who is also Egypt's defence minister and deputy prime minister, and Fahmy would hold '2+2' talks with their Russian counterparts, army spokesman Colonel Ahmed Aly said in a statement.
The talks would focus on 'bilateral relations and aspects of cooperation between the two countries', the statement said.
Egypt foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty told AFP the two men had Wednesday left Cairo for a visit to Russia that would last two days.
The trip comes 'in response to the historic visit of the Russian defence and foreign ministers to Cairo' last November, the army statement said.
Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Cairo for two days mid-November to discuss weapons sales as well as political and economic ties.
