Sisi: The suspension of Saudi oil is unrelated to our UN vote

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi denied a relationship between the suspension of Saudi oil shipments to Egypt this month and his country’s vote in the UN Security Council in favour of a Russian draft resolutions on Syria.

In a speech to the Armed Forces, Al-Sisi said the halt in oil shipments come in accordance with a commercial agreement signed in April.

He added that Egypt is being subjected to attempts to pressure the country, but that countries that are independent in their decision-making must suffer. He stressed that Egypt will bow to anyone but God

Saudi’s Aramco informed the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation at the beginning of October that it would stop supplying it with petroleum products.

This coincided with Egypt’s vote at a UN Security Council for a Russian draft resolution regarding the situation in Syria, which went against Saudi’s interests.

Saudi UN representative, Abdullah Al-Mualimi, described Egypt’s support for the Russian resolution as painful, saying that it was a unfortunate that Senegal and Malaysia’s positions in the Security Council were closer to the Arab position than Egypt’s.