CAIRO — Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek el-Mulla announced that Egyptian ports welcomed two fuel shipments from Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, on March 17-18, a day after the company announced resumption of supplying oil product shipments to Cairo.
Aramco had suddenly suspended these shipments in October 2016, after Saudi envoy to the United Nations Abdallah al-Mouallimi criticized Egypt’s vote in favor of a Russian resolution on Syria before the UN Security Council. It appeared that Egypt and Saudi Arabia were not on the same page regarding the Syrian crisis.