Cairo – Mubasher: Bilateral trade between Egypt and Ukraine reached $2.6 billion in 2019, the Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation announced.

Egypt will always be Ukraine’s largest trade partner in Africa and the Middle East, the ministry noted in a statement on Wednesday.

The most important fields of cooperation between the two countries are communications, construction, finance, services, tourism, industry, and agriculture.

The Minister of International Cooperation, Rania El-Mashat, has met with a high-level Ukrainian delegation led by the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Ihor Zhovkva, to prepare for the joint Egyptian-Ukrainian committee.