Alexandria Business Association held its annual Cairo Ramadan Iftar at the Semiramis Intercontinental hotel in presence of Her Excellency Ms. Soha Gendi, Minister of Immigration, who gave a keynote speech on the Ministry’s programs for promoting safe migration paths for youth, and qualifying workers heading for jobs abroad and his Excellency Mr. Christian Berger, the Ambassador of the European Union is to Egypt, who spoke about the Egyptian-European partnership

ABA’s guests included Hossam Haiba, Chairman of the General Authority for Investment, Dr. Tariq Al-Houbi, Chairman of the National Food Safety Authority, Major General Issam Al-Najjar, Chairman of the General Authority for Export and Import Control, and Al-Shahat Al-Ghatouri, Head of the General Authority for Export and Import Control. Customs, Dr. Ashraf Al-Arabi, President of the National Planning Institute, Mr. Ahmed Al-Wakeel, President of the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce and representatives Ahmed Al-Sijini, Chairman of the Local Administration Committee in the House of Representatives and Tarek ELSaid.

Besides the EU ambassador the event was attended by many Foreign and Egyptian Diplomats and Representatives of international organizations including H.E Håkan Emsgård, Ambassador of Sweden, H.E. Olivia Toderean, Ambassador of Romania, H.E. Khaled Emara, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for European Affairs, H.E Ihab Awad, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister for African Affairs, Stephen Gumpert, Director of the Regional Office of the World Bank, Sean Jones, Chief of Mission of the United States Agency for International Development, UNDP Resident Representative Mr. Alessandro Fracassetti, UNHCR Deputy Representative to the Arab Republic of Egypt and the League of Arab States, Marti Romera.