{"id":3056,"date":"2015-10-11T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T18:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2015-10-12T18:58:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:58:59","slug":"egypt-signs-deal-with-france-to-buy-two-warships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/egypt-signs-deal-with-france-to-buy-two-warships\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt signs deal with France to buy two warships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>A French delegation arrived in Egypt ahead of the deal, including French Prime Minister Manuel Valls as well as 63 diplomats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CAIRO: Egypt and France officially signed a military deal on Saturday under which Egypt will\u00a0buy\u00a0two Mistral-class warships from France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls attended the ceremony of the signature in the Presidential Palace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On September 23, French President Francois Hollande announced he had agreed the sale with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deal was the second major military contract this year between France and Egypt, which Hollande said he increasingly views as a strategic partner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cairo would pay 950 million euros ($1 billion) for the vessels, with \u201csignificant\u201d Saudi financing,\u00a0French government sources said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two warships, which can each carry 16 helicopters, four landing craft and 13 tanks, were ordered by Russia in 2011 in a 1.2-billion-euro deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">French Prime Minister&#8217;s visit to Cairo is part of his visits to three Arab nations to boost economic ties and discuss regional conflicts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;France has a special relationship with its three allies (Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia),&#8221; Prime minister Manuel Valls has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/egypt-france-sign\/2183628.html\" target=\"_blank\">insisting<\/a> during his Middle East tour. It&#8217;s a relationship borne out of mutual interests against the scourge of Islamic State and the deepening refugee crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Egypt and Jordan, French Prime minister Manuel Valls is due to visit Saudi Arabia on Monday where he is expected to sign a series of aerospace contracts with his Saudi partners, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.rfi.fr\/general\/20151012-french-pm-seals-ties-embarrassing-middle-east-allies-sidesteps-human-rights\" target=\"_blank\">RFI<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">La France engag\u00e9e pour la stabilit\u00e9 et la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de l&#8217;\u00c9gypte. Une nouvelle illustration : les Mistral. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/OPy86nuauG\">pic.twitter.com\/OPy86nuauG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manuel Valls (@manuelvalls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manuelvalls\/status\/652942364181417985\">October 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFrance is engaged in Egypt\u2019s security and stability. A new ilustration: the Mistrals\u201d French Prime Minister tweeted.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French delegation arrived in Egypt ahead of the deal, including French Prime Minister Manuel Valls as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[6,78,357,64,356,5,63],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-defense","tag-egypt","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/egypt-france-deal.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}