Egypt celebrates Qatar’s National Day amid improving ties
Egypt’s iconic Cairo Tower lit up with Qatar’s flag colors, in the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries after years of political rift.
Egypt’s iconic Cairo Tower lit up in maroon Dec. 18 to celebrate Qatar’s National Day, in the latest sign of improving relations between the two countries after years of political rift.
A video published by the Qatari Embassy in Cairo showed the famed Nile-side landmark lit up with the Gulf state’s flag colors with an illumination reading in Arabic “The National Day of the State of Qatar.”
Hani Shawki, director of public relations at Cairo Tower, said the Qatari Embassy requested to illuminate the iconic tower with Qatar’s flag colors in celebration of the country’s national occasion.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi also sent a cable to Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to greet him on the Gulf state’s national occasion. Sisi also dispatched his presidential secretary to the Qatari Embassy in Cairo to offer greetings.
