International relations of Egypt

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Egypt is pursuing a single-type policy. Factors such as population numbers, historical events, military power, diplomatic experience and strategic geographical position allow the country to exert significant political influence in the Middle East, Africa and the Single States Movement as a whole. Cairo has been an intersection of Arab trade and culture for millennia, and today's intellectual and Islamic institutions have turned the capital into a regional centre.

Middle East and North Africa

Relations with the Arab countries
The headquarters of the Arab League is in Cairo and as Secretary General is traditionally elected Egyptian. Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil El-Arabi holds the position of Chief Secretary of the League. Between 1991 and 1996 as UN Secretary-General, former Deputy Prime Minister Butros Butros-Gali served.

Egypt is on good terms with its Western neighbour Libya.

Egypt has relatively good relations with Sudan, despite the territorial dispute over the Halaib Triangle, on which Sudan claims. Egypt supports a single Sudan policy, and does not directly participate in negotiations on the division of its southern neighbour in Kenya, which led to the formation of the new South Sudan state in 2011. Since ancient times Egypt maintains trade relations in the Punt region.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Egypt plays an important role in the negotiations leading to the 1991 Madrid Conference, which, under the auspices of the United States and the USSR, gathers all sides involved in the conflict to discuss peace in the Middle East. For the first time a Palestinian delegation took part.

This role of mediator continues with the frequent intervention even of the former President Hosni Mubarak for peace talks. In 1996, he hosted the Supreme Peacekeeper Meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, where Bill Clinton and other world leaders attended.

In 2000, Hosni Mubarak held two meetings in Sharm el-Sheikh and one in Taba in an attempt to resume the negotiations interrupted in July that year by Camp David. Sharm el-Sheikh is the place where again in early 2005 there was another meeting to achieve peace, attended by Egypt, Israel, Palestinian autonomy and Jordan. Chief of Egyptian Intelligence, General Omar Suleiman plays an important role in the negotiations between Israel and Palestine and is highly respected on both sides.

Relations with Africa
The 21st century faced Egypt with a serious immigration problem because of the large number of Africans trying to enter the territory of the country, fleeing poverty or war in their homeland. Border control methods can be harsh, even deadly. This sharpens the country's relations with its southern neighbours, as well as with the EU and Israel because these immigrants often aim to reach higher standards countries.

Libya
After both neighbouring countries received their independence in the early 1950s, their relations were initially cooperative. Libya supports Egypt in Arabic