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Egypt hosts Iran, Turkey leaders for Muslim summit

Published : Friday, 20 December, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 290
CAIRO, Dec 19: Egypt hosted the leaders of Turkey and Iran for a summit of eight Muslim-majority countries on Thursday, against a backdrop of regional turmoil including the conflict in Gaza and unrest in Syria.

The gathering of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as the Developing-8.

A special session on Gaza and Syria will be held, and will be attended by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

The summit will see Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian meeting for the first time since Syria's president Bashar al-Assad was ousted.

Turkey has historically backed the opposition to Assad, while Iran supported his rule.

Pezeshkian, who arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, is the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who visited in 2013.

Ahead of his departure from Tehran, he said the summit was an opportunity for Muslim countries to "bring our views closer together and this can have a huge effect on the regional diplomacy and interactions".

Relations between Egypt and Iran have been strained for decades, but diplomatic contacts have intensified since Cairo became a mediator in the war in Gaza.

Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi visited Egypt in October, while his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty travelled to Tehran in July to attend Pezeshkian's inauguration.    —AFP



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