99% of terrorist threat eradicated in Egypt, Ali says

House of Deputies Member and the Director of the Middle East Studies Center in Paris, Dr Abdel Rahim Ali, said Sunday that European states like France now race against each other to hammer our arms deals with Egypt.

He added at a seminar in Dutch capital, Amsterdam, that world leaders also race against each other to visit Egypt, with the Arab state proving unmatched successes in eradicating the terrorist threat in it.

"Nonetheless, we still have a long way to go," Ali said at the seminar. "We need to work hard for the exchange rate of the US dollar to go down to normal levels."

Ali is in Amsterdam at an invitation by the Supreme Council of the Egyptian Community in Holland. He will speak at the seminar about a wide range of issues, including the terrorist threat on Europe, the conditions of the Copts in Egypt and also the status of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country and outside it.

He said at the seminar that the Egyptian government works hard to raise the salaries of the nation's civil servants, and fix the hospitals.

"We have managed to eradicate 99% of the terrorist threat in Sinai," Ali said. "We are also working to bring Syria and Libya back to their conditions before the war erupted in both of them."