Plans for the India-Middle East-Europe-Economic Corridor (IMEC) cannot proceed without some progress on the Palestinian question, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Friday (October 17, 2025), adding that Egypt would be interested to join all such connectivity projects once the situation is “conducive”.
Mr. Abdelatty told a group of journalists that he had discussed the IMEC project with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during the first India-Egypt Strategic Dialogue on Friday (October 17), and also proposed that India join the Egyptian Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZONE), where Russia, China, and a few other countries already have separate industrial complexes.
Delighted to co-chair the inaugural India - Egypt Strategic Dialog
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