Paris - Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry during a meeting on Wednesday with Chairman of Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense of the French Senate, Christian Cambon, said that Doha's government has been interfering in Egypt's interior affairs since 1996. "They backed the terrorist groups after our rejection to the ‘Islamic political movement' to destabilize the state's stability," Sameh Shoukry said. The two sides discussed several issues, among them, confronting terrorism, disputes, and wars in Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. In the meeting, Shoukry said that the Egyptian government is following the terrorist entities and groups inside Libya, as they are considered a ‘real threat to Cairo's national security,' as many of the terrorists affiliated to them cross to Egypt through the Western borders. Shoukry encouraged the French government to take further steps in the negotiations to reach ‘compatible solutions' regarding the situation. Regarding the Qatari, Shoukry explained the real reasons behind the dispute origins. "All the attempts have failed regarding preventing the Qatari government from backing extremists and terrorists," Shoukry said during the meeting. "Accordingly, Egypt had to cooperate with its allies to Push Qatar back," Shoukry told Cambon. Furthermore, Shoukry expressed his ‘sorrow' regarding the governments that still refuse to admit the Qatari threat as a result of backing terrorism.
