Doha denied on Thursday holding meetings with Qatar, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, stressing that diplomatic relations were resumed solely through written correspondences , Reuters reported.
Saturday, 23 January, 2021 - 07:15 Destroyed parts of the old city of Mosul. AFP. Cairo - Walid Abdulrahman
The UN General Assembly adopted a new resolution proposed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco and a number of other countries, to combat sectarian hate and protect holy sites.
The resolution, titled Promoting a Culture of Peace and Tolerance to Safeguard Religious Sites, condemns damage and destruction of religious sites and asks the secretary-general to convene a global conference to spearhead public support for safeguarding places of religious heritage.
It also denounces the increasing targeting of “cultural property, including religious sites and ritual objects by terrorist attacks and outlawed militias.”
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Libyan envoys at U.N.-backed talks in Egypt agreed on Wednesday to hold a constitutional referendum before planned elections in the war-torn country later this year, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.
Egypt “welcomes the agreement reached today between the Libyan parties in Hurghada in the framework of the constitutional process … and appreciates the efforts that led to the agreement to hold a referendum on the draft constitution in view of the Libyan elections scheduled for Dec. 24, 2021”, the ministry said in a statement.
New talks will be held in Egypt next month with a view to settle the “road map for the referendum and elections”, it added.
CAIRO, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) Egypt strongly condemned on Tuesday the recent terrorist attack in the Afghan capital Kabul that left two female judges dead, said th
ISTANBUL Turkey has so far vaccinated 1.04 million citizens during the first week of its nationwide mass inoculation program against COVID-19, the Turkish Health Ministry announced on Wednesday.