Cairo - Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry made a phone call to the new US secretary of state Rex Tillerson on Saturday evening to congratulate him for the new position and to discuss their upcoming bilateral work, according to Ahmed Abou Zaid, the ministry's spokesperson. Shoukry said that he is looking forward to working with Tillerson in the next phase to document and promote Egyptian-American relations in a way that reflects its own specificity and strategy, as well as the interests of the Egyptian and American people.