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Egypt’s Sissi calls on Trump to apply pressure for ceasefire in Gaza

By AFP 17 May 2025, 1:26 pm 1 Edit
Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (R) welcomes Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi upon his arrival in Baghdad ahead of the 34th Arab League summit on May 17, 2025. (Murtadha AL-SUDANI / POOL / AFP)
Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (R) welcomes Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi upon his arrival in Baghdad ahead of the 34th Arab League summit on May 17, 2025. (Murtadha AL-SUDANI / POOL / AFP)

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi urges his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to apply pressure for a Gaza ceasefire.

“I call on President Trump, as a leader who wants to consolidate peace, to apply all necessary efforts and pressure for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,” which would pave the way “for a serious political process in which he would be a mediator and a sponsor,” Sissi says in an address to an Arab League summit in Baghdad.

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