Sunday 01/March/2026 – 08:11 PM
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, attended the annual iftar ceremony held by the Armed Forces coinciding with the celebration of the anniversary of the 10th of Ramadan victories, in the presence of Counselor Hisham Badawi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Counselor Issam Farid, Speaker of the Senate, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, Lieutenant General Ashraf Salem Zaher, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense and Military Production, Lieutenant General Ahmed Khalifa, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, and Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria. The Patriarch of the See of Mark, in addition to a number of ministers, governors, leaders of the main branches, commanders of the armed forces and the civil police, a group of senior statesmen and representatives, veteran commanders of the armed forces, and a number of students from the Egyptian Military Academy.
The official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic stated that the President delivered a speech, the text of which reads as follows:
In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds.. Allow me to welcome you all.. Happy New Year.. We welcome all the leaders and guests present.. I see a very wonderful presence from many leaders and officials.
The topic of the hour is the topic of the current crisis and war in the region. We in Egypt have tried, through sincere efforts over the past months, to avoid the crisis with the aim of bringing viewpoints closer and mediating between the United States and Iran to reach an agreement, because wars always have a negative impact on the countries in which the war is taking place or their neighboring countries, especially with the development of means of combat. Our effort was sincere and enlightened, and that wrong assessments result in negative repercussions on countries. The repercussions of wars have a major impact on the balance, in one way or another, not only because of the humanitarian dimension. And other dimensions, and I imagine that there must be a very great expectation that the war will have repercussions on countries, and the impact that this will have on the stability of the region. In two days, very large and rapid developments occurred, and in Egypt we were keen to stress the importance of non-escalation, achieving calm, and even stopping the war, even though I doubted that this would be achieved.
The president has done so Abdel Fattah El-SisiA telephone call to Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, Sultan of the Sultanate of Oman.
Ambassador Mohamed El-Shenawy, the official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic, said that the call dealt with developments in the military escalation in the region, where the President expressed his condemnation of the targeting of the Omani port of Duqm today. He also stressed Egypt’s firm position calling for the primacy of dialogue and peaceful means to settle regional crises, warning of the dangerous repercussions that may result from the region sliding into a state of chaos as a result of this escalation.
He also appreciated the important role played by the Sultanate of Oman in mediating and facilitating negotiations between the United States and Iran regarding the Iranian nuclear file.
