India, Egypt upgrade ties to ‘strategic partnership’

PM Narendra Modi and President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi signed a pact to elevate the bilateral relationship between the two countries to a strategic PARTNERSHIP.

In a special ceremony, Sisi conferred PM Modi with the Order of the Nile, the highest civilian award of Egypt. This was the 13th state honour to have been conferred on PM Modi.

The two sides also signed three MoUs in the fields of Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, archaeology and antiquities and competition law.