Volume of trade exchange between Egypt, US was $7.9bn in 2014

In an interview with Daily News Egypt, US Ambassador to Egypt Stephen Beecroft discussed US economic investments in Egypt, and the volume of trade between the two countries.

He further discussed the terrorist acts worldwide, most lately the attacks in Paris, as well as the effects of the Russian plane crash on Egypt’s economy and tourism.

Were Egyptian-US relations affected by the fall of the Russian aircraft in Sinai two weeks ago?

We hope this would not affect Egypt on the political and economic level. We hope the Egyptian administration would accelerate the development of the tourism industry in Egypt.

I personally requested that the embassy staff visit monuments in Cairo, Luxor and other places, and this is a message that Egypt is a safe country and what happened is a mere incident.