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1st LD: Egypt, Russia sign agreement to build Egypt's first nuclear power plant

Xinhua,December 11, 2017 Adjust font size:

CAIRO, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Egypt and Russia signed on Monday an agreement to build Egypt's first nuclear power plant.

The agreement was signed in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his visiting counterpart Vladimir Putin.

In February 2015, Putin and Sisi signed in Cairo an initial agreement to build a four-reactor nuclear power station in Egypt by 2022. Enditem