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The Egypt's Relations with International Community

Egypt has close relations with Sudan. Relations reached a low in 1995 when Sudanese-supported gunmen attempted to assassinate President Mubarak in Addis Ababa, but have since improved. Egypt has followed closely the talks on the peace agreement in Sudan between the Government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). Egypt hosted talks in Cairo in early 2005 between the Government of Sudan and the Northern Democratic Alliance. Egypt has provided humanitarian and medical relief to the crisis-stricken region of Darfur in Western Sudan. Egypt claims the 'Hala'ib Triangle', under partial Sudanese administration that is defined by an administrative boundary, which supersedes the treaty of 1899.

Egypt continues to be supportive of the political process in Iraq and supported the 30 January national elections in Iraq for a Transitional National Assembly. Egypt hosted the meeting of Iraq's neighbours in Cairo in July 2004. They also hosted an International Conference on Iraq in Sharm el-Sheikh in November 2004 and follow up meeting in January 2005.

Trade and Investment with UK

The British and Egyptian governments have a strong relationship and share mutual objectives.

The UK is the largest non-Arab investor in Egypt with total cumulative investment by the top dozen UK companies in the country amounting to some $18billion. UK exports to Egypt totalled £669.5million in 2004. Imports from Egypt in 2004 were worth £509.5million. British companies present in Egypt include British Gas, British Petroleum, Shell, Unilever, Cadburys, Glaxo SmithKline, Barclays Bank, HSBC, Legal & General and Vodafone.