India and Egypt want to maintain high-level contacts which are very critical in the building of further momentum in a already strong bilateral relationship, the Indian envoy here has said, ahead of Egyptian PresidentAbdel Fattah Al-Sisi's India visit next month.
India's Ambassador to Egypt Sanjay Bhattacharyya's remarks came during a roundtable seminar on 'India-Egypt Relations: Transforming Historic Ties to a New Partnership' organised by the Maulan Azad Centre in Cairo (MACIC) yesterday.
Bhattacharyya said that the visit of President Al-Sisito India and the previous formal visits to Egypt by the Indian side reflect the desire to have regular high-level contacts between the two countries which are very critical in the building of further momentum in a relationship that is already strong.
His comments came ahead of Egyptian President Al-Sisi's visit to India from September 1-3 to discuss ways to enhance bilateral cooperation in different fields.
Gillane Allam, former Ambassador of Egypt to India, Profesoor Mustapha Kamel Al Sayyid, faculty of Economics & Political Science Cairo University and Tarek Al Sanooti, head of the Diplomatic Section Al Alhram Al Messai participated in the roundtable.
They discussed the strong ties between India and Egypt and their wide ranging cooperation, mutual respect, appreciation of regional and global role as well as common endeavour to enhance bilateral partnership in all areas of interest.
"I think there are three areas which we can learn much from India. The first area is green revolution which is increasing yield of crops in a very high rate. The second area is the software industry. The third area is call center management," prof Kamel said.
Journalist Tarek Al Sanooti, who visited India several times in different occasions, spoke about how media flourished in recent years in India.
Sanooti said that cooperation between the two countries in the field of media is needed.
"People to people contacts is very important because it supports the political relations, economic relations, etc," he said.
"There is a great Indian business community in Egypt, however, there are few cooperation in the field of media. Media to media cooperation is important as it play a vital role in the relation between the two countries," he said.
Allam spoke about her experience in India as the Egyptian envoy to India a couple of decades ago.
Allam said that she is very happy that the relations have been developed and became better in recent time.
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