Mostafa Madbouly welcomed the Chairman and CEO of Orange

Cairo – Eco – Fady Labib : Earlier today, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, the PrimeMinister welcomed Mr. Stephane Richard, the Chairman and CEO of Orange International. The meeting was attended by Dr. Amr Tallat, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology ...

At the beginning of the meeting, the Prime Minister praised Orange's investments in Egypt for it being one of the world's leading telecommunications companies. He stressed that Egypt is looking forward to enhance cooperation with the company by increasing the investments of Orange in Egypt in new areas of interests, which will serve the company’s expansion plan around the world.

The prime minister added that the important talks held by President Al-Sisi with President Emmanuel Macaron yesterday, have touched on various proposals, which aims at increasing French investments in Egypt and that will obviously include the investments of Orange shares into the Egyptian market. 

Mr. Nader Saad, the official spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, said that the president of Orange Company stressed that the company is keen to boost its current investments in Egypt and in the coming period Orange is working on increasing investments in other markets. In this regard, Mr. Saad pointed out to the signed cooperation protocol between the company and the Ministry of Electricity Renewable energy for the implementation of a solar energy project in Benban, Aswan, as well as another signed agreement with the Ministry of Social Solidarity, which helps in providing more job opportunities in the neediest villages.

Additionally, the spokesman of the Cabinet said that the President of Orange Company expressed the company's potential to provide all possible support to Egypt during the organization process of the African Nations Cup 2019, given that Orange is the second largest sponsor of official African football championships. The President of Orange also expressed the Company's desire to launch cooperation with Egypt in the health sector by promoting the use of digital technology. This will facilitate access to health services by citizens. 

The president of Orange was deliberate to discuss various issues like: information security and ways to secure the Internet against piracy. He pointed out that the company has specialized units that is composed of trained professionals in this field. Lastly, he had the time to acknowledge the skills possessed by the Egyptian technicians whom works at the company in Egypt.

For his part, the Prime Minister welcomed all new possibilities of cooperation mentioned by the President of Orange, and stressed that he will lead the other ministers related to this matter in keeping strong communication with the company in order to activate these proposals and explore new areas of collaboration with Orange.