3rd confab of Arab-African countries bordering the Red Sea opens in Cairo

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Cairo, Egypt,  february 14 (Infosplusgabon) - The third edition of senior officials from Arab and African countries bordering the Red Sea opened on Wednesday in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, sources close to the Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs said.

 

 

The conference is within the framework of the political consultations between those countries in a bid to strengthen coordination and cooperation between them in all domains, added the sources.

 

The first conference of Arab and African countries bordering the Red Sea was held in December 2017 and had focused on political, security and economic challenges.

 

The final communiqué issued at the end of that conference highlighted the importance of cooperation and coordination in the political, economic, environmental and cultural domains.

 

The second conference was held in December 2018 and had focused, according to the final communiqué issued, on the importance of bringing together Arab and African countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to cooperate between themselves.

 

However, what was announced on the strengthening of trade, investment and environmental coordination was not to be as the setting up of that entity highlighted only a security grouping that responds to the Saudi and regional will in all conformity with the current policy of the US administration hostile to Iran, observers say.

 

They added that the entity aims particularly to face the Iranian activities in the region in general and in the Red Sea in particularly, especially if it is known that some of those countries are involved in the war in Yemen where Iran is accused of backing the Houthis to spread its influence in the zone to the detriment of Saudi Arabia.

 

 

 

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