EGYPT-SUEZ CANAL/ARRIVALS Egypt's Sisi joined by foreign leaders for inauguration of Suez expansion

Record ID: 144819

  • Title: EGYPT-SUEZ CANAL/ARRIVALS Egypt's Sisi joined by foreign leaders for inauguration of Suez expansion
  • Date: 6th August 2015
  • Summary: ISMAILIA, EGYPT (AUGUST 6, 2015) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT, ABDEL FATTAH AL-SISI, WAVING AS HE ARRIVES FOR INAUGURATION CEREMONY CAR PULLING UP FRENCH PRESIDENT, FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, GETTING OUT OF CAR AND WAVING VARIOUS OF WORLD LEADERS ARRIVING
  • Embargoed: 21st August 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Egypt
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAC8NXERKN50A9UI75F81BCAD35
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi was joined by Western and Arab leaders as he officially unveiled a major expansion of the Suez Canal on Thursday (August 6).
    The canal expansion is the centrepiece of a grand agenda by Sisi to cement his tenure as the man who brought stability and prosperity to Egypt after he ousted elected Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 following mass protests.
    The spectacular inauguration was also intended to bolster his international standing in the presence of French President Francois Hollande, Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev, King Abdullah of Jordan, the emir of Kuwait and the king of Bahrain.
    Earlier Sisi, in full military regalia, sailed up the canal, flanked by a young boy in military fatigues waving the Egyptian flag, aboard the yacht El-Mahrousa, the first ship to pass through the Suez Canal when it was opened in November 1869.
    Newly delivered French Rafale fighters and U.S. F-16 war planes staged a flypast, while helicopters flew overhead and naval vessels escorted the yacht in the televised ceremony.
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