President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will be attending the 72nd Regular Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, which kicked off last Tuesday and will continue through 25 September. A delegation from Ittihadiya is already there to prepare for El Sisi’s arrival, which has yet to be officially announced, according to unconfirmed local press reports. Separately, Egypt’s UN envoy criticized the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)’s remarks on “systemic violence” in Egypt, saying they reflected “flawed logic,” according to Reuters.

Our friends at AmCham are planning a roundtable with major US corporations for the president in New York, AmCham President Tarek Tawfik tells Daily News Egypt. His comments came at the sidelines of an Egypt-focused investment seminar hosted by AmCham, which was attended by Investment Minister Sahar Nasr. She spoke about recent reform efforts, improvements in economic indicators for FY2016-17, and renewed investor appetite in the market to representatives from companies including, Silk Invest, NBK Capital, RIMCO, and Oppenheimer.

Finance Minister Amr El Garhy is heading to Manama on 16 September to participate in Bahrain’s Geo-Economic Conference.

A UK trade delegation headed by trade envoy Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is expected to announce new infrastructure investments in Egypt during a trip to Cairo at the end of September