High-Level Security Dialogue with the Egyptian government
Arrival of UK delegation to Cairo for High-Level Security Dialogue with the Egyptian government
On Thursday 5 March, a UK delegation of senior officials and counter-terrorism experts participated in a High-Level Security Dialogue with the Egyptian government in Cairo.
The Security Dialogue involved discussions on the shared terrorist threats faced by the UK and Egypt in Libya, Sinai, and Iraq and Syria and followed the phone call between Prime Minister David Cameron and President el-Sisi on 16 February.
Britain and Egypt are both members of the global coalition to defeat ISIL. The UK has conducted over 150 airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq, as well as committing more than £876 million to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and Iraq.
Ambassador John Casson said:
Defeating ISIL must be a shared international effort and should not be left to any one nation alone. The Security Dialogue is an important new initiative for the UK and Egypt to enhance practical cooperation to help defeat terrorism and keep our people safe.
Across the region, our approach to ISIL must be tough, comprehensive, and intelligent. We must engage and defeat ISIL militarily. We must undermine and discredit the poisonous, twisted ideology that seeks to justify their barbarism. And we must tackle the underlying political and economic grievances that exist across the region and create opportunities for ISIL to grow.