President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian president, appreciates the importance of the Egyptian communities and this was shown in most of his visits abroad. He met with Egyptian communities abroad like he did with the Egyptian community in Germany, which lasted for more than an hour.
President al-Sisi is indeed seeking to exploit potentials and energies of eight million people whom live abroad and therefore he wants to send them several messages, which we will monitor in this article.
He aims to set a Ministry for 8 million Egyptians according to the computation of Egyptian General Authority of Information and also according to census of Egypt publication in 2014. That huge number of expatriated Egyptians abroad may be the cause of establishing Ministry for Egyptians abroad which aims to take care of the interests of Egyptians whom live outside Egypt, and activate their role in the country's development.
The first message is that president al-Sisi always seeks to clarify the fact of events about Egypt for Egyptian residents abroad, in order to be a mean for clarifying facts to communities in which they live, such as what Sisi asked in his last meeting with the Egyptian community in Germany inviting them to explain the current developments in Egypt to the countries where they live, because when he arrived Germany, he found that the right image were not complete.
Second message, he asked them to be ambassadors for their country and responsible for transferring its image and civilization and to deliver it as a message for all over the world, and also they have to make it clear that" the Egyptians are able to demonstrate their will and this was shown in the implementation of the giant projects like the new Suez Canal project and achieving it in a record time, and this what Sisi said to the Egyptian community abroad.
The third message about taking advantage of their abilities, thus what President al-Sisi wants, he promises the Egyptian community in Germany that he plans to establish a Ministry for expatriated Egyptians abroad, aims to care for their interests and activate their role in the country's development stressing that after a year or two years, there will be a major developments and projects and this will be new jump and forward steps in Egypt.
Fourth message, he called them to spend their vacations in Egypt to support the Egyptian economy rather than spending it in other European countries, adding that if about 20% or 30% of the Egyptian communities spend their holidays in Egypt, they will contribute in supporting the Egyptian economy.
The fifth message was during his visit to Ethiopia in his meeting with Egyptian businessmen in Addis Ababa and he explained to them what was common between the two countries, pointing out that they agreed to upgrade the level of the Joint Commission among the two countries to reach the summit level, and stressed that leaders cooperation will contribute effectively to overcome years which lacked relations and the launch of a new era of friendship and fruitful cooperation, pointing to the importance of the development of transport routes between the two countries.
