Industry and Trade Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour has called for enhancing bilateral relations with Lebanon in the economic and development fields in order to reduce poverty and ignorance levels that lead to terrorism.
Abdel Nour conveyed greetings of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab to the Lebanese government at the inauguration of the Egyptian-Lebanese Business Forum.
He called for fighting terrorism in the Arab region.
Development, Abdel Nour said, is one way to combat terrorism and create job opportunities for unemployed youth.