Egypt and Saudi hold talks to enhance military cooperation

Egypt and Saudi Arabia yesterday held talks on ways to enhance military cooperation.

Talks were held during a meeting of the joint military committee, headed by the two countries’ chiefs of staff of the armed forces.

Egyptian army spokesman, Colonel Gharib Abdel Hafez, said in a statement that the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Ahmed Khalifa, met his Saudi counterpart, Lieutenant General Fayyadh Al-Ruwaili, at the Ministry of Defence in Cairo.

He explained that they “discussed a number of topics of common interest,” including “the special military cooperation relations between the armed forces of the two countries in many fields.”

The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces and his Saudi counterpart chaired the closing session of the meeting of the Egyptian-Saudi Military Committee “which addressed activities and areas of military cooperation and the transfer and exchange of scientific and training expertise in various military fields between the two sides.”

Khalifa stressed “Egypt’s pride in its firm relations with the kingdom,” noting “the shared visions for joint plans that benefit the armed forces of both countries.”

The statement quoted the Saudi chief of general staff as “praising Egypt’s influential and effective role in its regional and international environment to achieve security and stability in the Middle East.”

Meanwhile, the Saudi Ministry of Defence said in a post on X that “the Saudi-Egyptian Military Committee held its tenth meeting in Cairo,” adding that  the committee discussed “the strategic relations between the two brotherly countries, and ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in the defence and military fields.”

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