Egyptians abroad started voting in the second phase of the parliamentary elections after submitting their ballot papers on the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) website, starting yesterday December 7 at midnight.
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CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr today decided to open more polling stations in Egyptian consulates in Chicago and New York to service a huge influx of Egyptian expatriate voters in the current parliamentary elections.
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CAIRO: The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to open nine Egyptian consulates aboard, beside the embassies worldwide, to receive voting envelops from the Egyptians abroad during the second and third phases of the parliamentary (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Kamel Amr said the Egyptian January 25 Revolution changed the region features and sent a wind of freedom for the Arab Spring.
Amr said during an international conference about Afghanistan in (...)
Saudi authorities arrested 48 Egyptians, who will be tried in the coming months, on charges of banned medicine possession.
Foreign Minister Deputy Assistant Tareq Abu Senna said the Saudi authorities captured 48 Egyptians carrying banned medicine (...)
The Assistant of Foreign Minister for Egyptian expatriates announced the extension of mail voting in the upcoming parliamentary elections for Egyptian expatriates until midnight Monday.
Ambassador Ahmed Ragheb said the ministry coordinated with (...)
A number of Egyptians abroad in the U.S. criticized the mechanisms of postal voting drafted by the High Electoral Committee (HEC) especially since it provides them with a short time for the voting process, which coincides with Thanksgiving Day, a (...)
Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials criticized the security forces' unjustified violence towards Tahrir protestors who demand freedom and social justice.
One FM official criticized the unprofessional coverage of Egyptian media over the (...)
AMMAN: The Egyptian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, returned Egyptians who were arrested for trying to infiltrate across Syria, from there to Turkey and onto Europe to illegally immigrate.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry pointed out the return of the 17 (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Amr today confirmed that Egypt entirely rejects any international interference in Syrian affairs.
“Syrian unity is the first priority and must be protected under all conditions,” Amr (...)
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Egyptian consulates and embassies around the world have used unconventional means to enable expatriate Egyptians to register to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
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CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr will begin a tour of the Arab Maghreb Union states on Sunday. His tour, to promote cooperation with the Arab Maghreb Union, will include Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania.
The tour is (...)
MADRID, Spain: Egyptian Ambassador to Spain Ayman Zien said the embassy in Spain has been in contact with Egyptian expatriates via the embassy's official Facebook page, through various organizations and unions of Egyptians in Spain and by (...)
Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Amr Rushdi said Egypt very specific Dutch parliamentary delegations are permitted to enter Egypt. Egypt allows delegations to have visas to enter Egypt except one member Raymond de Roman Dutch (...)
Diplomatic sources inside the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs today expressed concerns over problems with expatriate voting, including apathy toward the voting process and registration, lack of diplomats available to supervise elections and the (...)
CAIRO: Bahraini King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa did not meet with former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during the king's recent trip to Cairo, according to Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr.
The king's visit was confined to meeting (...)
Irato Kozakou Marcolis, Cyprus's Foreign Minister, confirmed that Cyprus is ready to coordinate with Egypt to locate and return illegal funds belonging to former regime figures in Cypriot banks, at a press conference Wednesday.
Marcolis said a (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs unveiled the secret of the U.S. white diplomatic car that ran over demonstrators during the January 25 Revolution.
The Ministry said diplomatic cars were found burnt in the Sour el-Eyoun area of the (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is ready to enable Egyptian expatriates to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections, pending a final court verdict, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Amr Rushdi.
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CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr will meet with European Union ambassadors for the first time tomorrow at the Egypt Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The official spokesperson of the ministry, Amr Roushdi, said the meeting comes to (...)
CAIRO: Security bodies followed up the file of prisoner swap between Egypt and Israel in coordination with the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Egyptian foreign Ministry spokesman, determine the number of cases of Egyptian prisoners in Israel Amr Rushdi (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Embassy in Jordan settled the living conditions of 50,000 Egyptians in Jordan in coordination with Jordanian authorities, said Egyptian ambassador to Jordan Amr Aboul Atta.
The Egyptian Embassy asked the Jordanian authority to (...)
CAIRO: Egypt will make it through the recent incident between members of the Coptic Christian Church and the Egyptian military at the Radio and Television headquarters (Maspiro), said former Lebanese President Ameen el-Gamal.
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Amr today welcomed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's decision to choose Finland as the host of next year's conference addressing areas free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
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CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Amr Rushdi denied media reports claiming that the U.K. Foreign Office issued a warning to its citizens on travel to Egypt and advised U.K. nationals to leave Egypt.
Rushdi called the media reports (...)