Food crisis, global challenges urges strengthening Arab-China Partnership: Sisi – Egypt Today

Food crisis, global challenges urges strengthening Arab-China Partnership: Sisi – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 9 December 2022: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said, Friday that most of the world’s countries, and especially developing countries are suffering from the food crisis and its repercussions.

He noted in his speech at the first China-Arab states summit in Riyadh that this crisis along with its consequences is a main motive to strengthen the Chinese-Arab partnership to face global challenge by strengthening multilateral cooperation.

President Sisi noted that “one of the most dangerous challenges the world, particularly developing countries, are facing today is the food crisis and its repercussions. This urges us to strengthen the Arab-China Partnership in the face of these challenges”

“These crises have also burdened our countries and their government budgets, which urges the international community to reduce the debt burden on countries that suffer from high food and energy import bills. This shall take place while working to strengthen the rules-based multilateral trading system, and redrafting the frameworks of governance of the international economy and international financial institutions in order to be more fair, transparent, all-inclusive, not eliminating developing countries, and more responsive to the challenges these countries are facing. This is, in addition to refocusing their tasks on achieving the goals of sustainable development,