Ammon News - Egyptian PM, Jordanian envoy discuss closer ties

CAIRO (Petra) – Egyptian Interim Prime Minister Hazim Beblawi on Thursday received Jordan's Ambassador to Egypt Bishr Khasawneh and discussed means to ensure closer cooperation.

Khasawneh, who is also the Kingdom's permanent envoy to the Arab League, told Petra that the meeting focused on ways to improve cooperation in the fields of energy, gas and electricity linkage as well as trade and tourism exchange.

The Egyptian prime minister told the envoy that his country highly appreciates the stance taken by Jordan, under the King's leadership, towards Egypt and the choices that its people exercised.

Further, the envoy reaffirmed that the Kingdom throws its weight behind Egypt and the Egyptian government, stressing that a strong and stable Egypt is a guarantor for regional and Arab stability.