{"id":193953,"date":"2025-03-19T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-fm-uk-envoy-discusses-strengthening-trade-ties\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:34:51","slug":"egypt-fm-uk-envoy-discusses-strengthening-trade-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-fm-uk-envoy-discusses-strengthening-trade-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt FM, UK Envoy Discusses Strengthening Trade Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aty met with Yasmin Qureshi, UK trade envoy to Egypt, on Tuesday to explore ways to enhance economic cooperation between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Minister Abdel-Aty emphasised Egypt&#8217;s commitment to expanding trade and investment relations, noting that bilateral trade neared \u00a35 billion in 2024. He highlighted government initiatives to improve the business climate, remove investment barriers, and support private sector growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Discussions also focused on leveraging the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aty met with Yasmin Qureshi, UK trade envoy to Egypt, on Tuesday to explore ways to enhance economic cooperation between the two nations. Minister Abdel-Aty emphasised Egypt&#8217;s commitment to expanding trade and investment relations, noting that bilateral trade neared \u00a35 billion in 2024. He highlighted government initiatives to improve the business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":193954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,8221,4697,415,5882,257,254,7148,7051,5979],"class_list":["post-193953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-discusses","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-envoy","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthening","tag-ties","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}