Blinken holds conversation with youth in AUC at the beginning of Egypt visit

Blinken is in a two-day official visit to Egypt that extends to Monday, during which he is set to meet with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry.

Blinken will then travel to Israel and the West Bank from 30-31 January to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian relations and de-escalation of the current tensions between the two sides.

“I wanted to start here for a couple of reasons,” the US Embassy in Cairo quoted Blinken as saying in the conversation with youth at the AUC.

“The main reason is this: As we’re looking at the partnership between the United States and Egypt, the strategic partnership that is of great consequence to the United States, we know that going forward that partnership ultimately is going to be built and sustained and strengthened by the people here today and the people that you represent,” Blinken stated.