CAIRO, Feb 10 (MENA) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr Abdelatty asserted the urgent need for a political process that leads to a final settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, based on international legitimacy resolutions.

This came during a meeting with US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, and National Security Council Middle East and North Africa Coordinator Eric Trager in Washington on Monday, according to a statement by Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tamim Kallaf.

Such settlement must guarantee the Palestinian people's right to establish an independent state along the lines of June 4, 1967, with Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) as its capital, while ensuring security and stability in the Middle East, Abdelatty noted.

Reviewing the latest developments in the Middle East and the core of regional conflicts, namely the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, especially in light of the deteriorating situation in the war-shattered Gaza Strip, Abdelatty reaffirmed Cairo's interest in maintaining coordination with the US administration to work for achieving the long-awaited goal of establishing peace in the Middle East.

The minister also touched on Egypt's efforts to follow up on the implementation of the ceasefire and the prisoner-swap agreement between Hamas and Israel, which took effect on January 19, the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza, and the possibility of rebuilding the strip without displacing Palestinians.

The meeting also addressed aspects of the four-decade-long strategic partnership between Cairo and Washington, and ways to support cooperation frameworks to achieve common interests. (MENA)

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