'Egypt and UAE… One heart' to Celebrate 5 Decades of Respect

  • Publish date: Wednesday، 19 October 2022
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The UAE and the Arab Republic of Egypt have announced that they will be organising a major celebration in Cairo, under the slogan “Egypt and the UAE… One Heart”, from 26th to 28th October, to mark the 50th anniversary of the UAE-Egypt relations.

The 3-day event will be attended by ministers and officials from the UAE and Egypt, and around 1,800 Emirati and Egyptian personalities, including politicians, senior officials, businessmen, intellectuals, creators, media professionals and public figures.

The event’s agenda consists of a number of forums and sessions. The first day of the event includes the Economic Forum, which will be held in the presence of a number of ministers in the governments of the UAE and Egypt, as well as senior officials, businessmen and economists in the two countries.

The Forum will focus on the horizons of the economic and investment cooperation between the UAE and Egypt, in addition to reviewing the most prominent projects and investment opportunities in the strategic sectors that the UAE and Egypt focus on.

The forum will review distinguished success stories of Egyptian and Emirati companies in different fields.

The agenda also features a special concert entitled "Umm Kulthum in Abu Dhabi" to be organised on the first day.

The second day of the event’s agenda includes the Cultural and Media Forum, which will be held in the presence of a group of intellectuals, media professionals and prominent creative personalities in the two countries.

Moreover, the value of Emirati investments in Egypt during the period from 2003 to 2019, is estimated at about US$30 billion (AED110 billion).

The UAE is Egypt's second-largest trading partner at the Arab level, while Egypt is the fifth-largest Arab trading partner of the UAE in intra-non-oil trade and holds 7 percent of its total non-oil trade with Arab countries.