The President is following up on the national strategy for the reconstruction of Sinai and directs that the state’s efforts aim to formulate an advanced and integrated development path that is consistent with the peculiarity of the unique status of Sinai, and is in harmony with the state’s similar development efforts in all parts of Egypt. ”
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met today with Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, Lieutenant General Mohamed Zaki, Minister of Defense and Military Production, Major General Mahmoud Tawfiq, Minister of Interior, Major General Hisham Amna, Minister of Local Development, Major General Mohamed Shousha, Governor of North Sinai, and Major General Amir Sayed Ahmed, Chief Adviser. Al-Jumhuriya for Urban Planning, Major General A. H. Ahmed Khalifa, Head of the Armed Forces Operations Authority, Major General Muhammad Rashwan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Authority for the Development of the Sinai Peninsula, and Major General Hassan Abdel Shafi, Advisor to the Presidency of the Republic.
The official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic stated that the meeting dealt with “following up on the national strategy for the reconstruction of Sinai.”
The President directed that the state’s efforts to implement the Sinai development strategy aim to formulate an advanced and integrated development path that includes its cities and villages, and is consistent with the importance and specificity of the unique position of Sinai, and is also in harmony with the state’s similar development efforts in all parts of Egypt, with the solidarity of all ministries and state agencies.
The President also directed support for the Sinai society and an increase in the area of cultural development at the expense of the existing absence of planning, while supporting those efforts with in-depth and necessary social and human studies, so that this serves as a starting point for the state’s efforts in that precious part of the land of Egypt.
The spokesperson added that the meeting witnessed a review of the general strategic plan for the development of North Sinai from all corners, with the participation of all ministries and state agencies, in addition to presenting the main determinants in this regard, which are based on ending any manifestations of slums in Sinai and developing all services and facilities in it to establish advanced development clusters.
