Egyptian Foreign Ministry has decided to close three consulates and an embassy abroad and to withdraw a total of 40 diplomats worldwide to cut its budget, said the Ministry Spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid in a statement Monday.
“The Ministry is conducting a leading role to rationalize the expenditure and reduce financial burden on the State’s budget more than a year ago, with full coordination with presidency of the Cabinet,” the statement read.
The ministry managed to save 10 percent of its budget and gave it back to the state’s treasury, he added. The closed consulates were in Nigeria’s Lagos, Tanzanian Zanzibar, and Geneva; the ministry also closed embassy in the Central Africa’s Bangui.
