Sharjah 24 – AFP: Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday during a rare visit to Egypt for talks on the blockaded Gaza Strip and Iran's nuclear programme, the two sides said.
"I thank President Sisi, whose contribution to the region and the relations between us is of historic proportions," Lapid tweeted.
Egypt's presidency also said the Palestinian issue was a key priority.
In his meeting with Sisi, Lapid noted "Iran's attempts to become a country with a military nuclear capability as well as its continued use of terrorism, and the threat this poses to the Middle East".
His visit comes a month to the day after both countries struck a security deal to boost Egyptian troop numbers around the border town of Rafah in the restive Sinai Peninsula.
Lapid's arrival comes on the back of Sisi meeting Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the southern Sinai resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, the first visit in over a decade by an Israeli head of government.
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