Sisi tours Armed Forces Strategic Command Centre in New Administrative Capital
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President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi toured on Friday the military Strategic Command Centre in the New Administrative Capital in preparation for the relocation of the Armed Forces Command there.
During the tour, President El-Sisi, Supreme Commander of the Egyptian Armed Forces, issued directives to make the centre an edifice for the Egyptian people and a vital asset to the army’s capabilities in a way that ensures integrated planning and coordination among military entities and maintains the preparedness to face challenges effectively and efficiently through state-of-the-art technology systems.
The president was received at the premises by Minister of Defence and Military Production General Abdel-Meguid Saqr and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. General Ahmed Khalifa, Head of the Egyptian Military Academy Lt. General Ashraf Salem Zaher, in addition to several military commanders.
“Amid extremely complex regional and international conditions, maximizing the comprehensive power of the Egyptian state is placed at the top of our priorities,” El-Sisi said.
The president added that in light of international changes and developments, it has been proven that “whoever wants peace must possess the necessary power that is capable of maintaining it.”
The president asserted that the new strategic command will play a pivotal role in promoting strenuous efforts to protect Egyptian national security on all strategic fronts in a way that achieves the state’s strategic objectives.
Military AcademyPresident El-Sisi also toured the Egyptian Military Academy, inspecting a number of its facilities, including the Graduate and Strategic Studies, the Artillery Institute, the Infantry Institute, and the Equestrian Club.
He pointed out that the state attaches importance to developing the educational and training systems in a way that ensures raising the levels of performance and competence of learners and trainees.
The state also seeks to enhance their capabilities to be qualified to carry out the various tasks assigned to them in the future, he added.
