Undersecretary of the Trade and Industry Ministry Said Abdullah said that it was agreed with the Russian side to hold a meeting of the joint commercial committee on January 31 under the Egyptian and Russian trade ministers.

This remark came on the sidelines of Abdullah's participation in the conference of "Agricultural export is locomotive of development"

The conference is organized by the Export Council for Agricultural Crops in cooperation with the German Chamber.

Abdullah further underlined that the meeting will be held in Sharm el Sheikh and will take up a number of files such as the joint economic cooperation and means of removing the obstacles hindering the increase of the Egyptian exports to the Russian market especially that Russia tends to increase it to replace the Turkish ones.