مصر وروسيا .. خطوة جديدة في مشروع الطاقة النووية بالضبعة
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00:00 "Economic relations of decades, as we have seen from Egypt and Russia.
00:08 But we have seen new developments in the nuclear plant.
00:14 We are talking here about the communication and signing of a new step in this project
00:22 between Russia and Egypt.
00:30 The meeting between President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Vladimir Putin was via video
00:37 and the talks were initiated at the base of the fourth nuclear power unit at the nuclear
00:43 plant that was agreed upon.
00:47 This is the first time that we are seeing this project in 2015 between Egypt and Russia.
00:54 We are talking about Rosatom, a Russian government company that is implementing the construction
01:01 works.
01:02 The plant has four power units with a capacity of 4.8 gigawatts and the cost is over 30 billion
01:10 dollars.
01:11 We are talking about this cost, 25 billion dollars is a Russian loan with a 3% interest
01:18 rate starting from October 2029 and for 35 years.
01:26 Egypt is starting with this loan and the cost of this project which is in the Dabaa region
01:33 of the Middle East and the north-west of Egypt, the distance is 260 km to the west of Alexandria.
01:41 Let's stop here and expand on the economic relations that are actually exceeding 80
01:48 years between Russia and Egypt.
01:50 The latest figures issued by the Egyptian General Assembly show that the trade exchange
01:57 between the two countries is at 14% of 4.5 billion dollars.
02:03 Here we are comparing the first 11 months, which is about a year from 2022 to 5.1 billion
02:10 dollars at the same time from 2023.
02:13 The Egyptian exports to Russia during the first 11 months of last year were planned
02:19 for 469 million dollars.
02:21 We are talking about Russia which is one of the most important exporters of wheat in
02:28 Egypt with about 8 million tons.
02:31 We have many of the main materials and the most important commodity groups that Egypt
02:38 has exported to Russia during the first 11 months of 2023.
02:42 We have vegetables and fruits which may be equivalent to more than the size of the
02:47 commodities that Egypt has exported to Russia and many other commodities.
02:52 On the other hand, there are also commodities that Egypt has imported from Russia during
02:58 the same period, most notably grains, and with a value of 2.5 billion dollars for these
03:04 numbers and the main commodities.
03:06 As for the value of Russian investments, which are still growing in Egypt, we have more
03:12 than 117% growth in these investments.
03:17 The value of the Egyptian conversion to Russia is planned for 16.4 million dollars.
03:24 Here we are talking about the first 11 months of 2023.
03:29 In contrast, we have seen some regressions in the value of the Russian conversion, due
03:35 to the recent unrest in Russia since the beginning of the Russian-Occupied Ukraine war.
03:41 The value of Russian conversions to Egypt has declined by 23.7 million dollars compared
03:48 to the last numbers recorded in this relation.
03:55 However, Russia is one of the most prominent numbers recorded by tourism in Egypt.
04:03 There is a Russian group that is a large proportion of the number of tourists coming
04:11 to Egypt.
04:12 18 daily trips from Russia to touristic cities and resorts are carried out in Egypt.
04:19 The number of Russian tourists in Egypt exceeded 1.5 million tourists at the end of last year.
04:25 We are talking about a large proportion, a large number of the total number of tourists
04:31 coming to Egypt.
04:32 I'm Elisa Morales and I'm a