Dr. Badr Abdel Aati, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, held a phone call today, Thursday, with Retno Marsudi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia.

Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, stated that Dr. Abdel Aati praised the historical bilateral relations between Egypt and Indonesia during the call, stressing the Egyptian side's interest in strengthening and developing this relationship.

On the level of economic cooperation, Dr. Abdel Aati expressed the Egyptian side's satisfaction with the existing cooperation in this field, praising the volume of trade exchange between the two countries exceeding one billion dollars, and looking forward to increasing the volume of economic and investment cooperation between the two countries by activating and encouraging the role of the private sector, and urging Indonesian companies to take advantage of the promising investment opportunities that abound in the Egyptian economy.