President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met in New York yesterday with a number of world leaders, holding one-on-one meetings with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (pdf) and Saudi Arabia’s US Ambassador Prince Khaled Bin Salman (pdf) to talk regional and Arab affairs — where the Qatar smackdown featured heavily. He also met both Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Ittihadiya statement. The meeting with Abbas focused on the Palestinian reconciliation efforts which appear to bearing fruit, while the meeting with Netanyahu — which was their first ever public meeting, according to the Times of Israel — discussed the peace process.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry also held meetings with his counterparts from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain in New York yesterday, according to a ministry statement. The quartet discussed the next steps to take in their spat with Qatar, and agreed that they will maintain their demands for Doha to stop funding and supporting terrorism, Al Shorouk reports.

Shoukry also participated yesterday in a ministerial meeting of countries which see eye-to-eye on resolving the Syrian crisis (which naturally included Russia and Iran) on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. The group discussed their countries’ proposed plans to enact a political resolution in Syria, and their visions for the country post-Daesh.

Dabaa is also on the gov’t diplomatic agenda: This comes as Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker assured the International Atomic Energy Agency that the Dabaa nuclear plant will be managed with a high level of safety, at organization’s general meeting in Vienna yesterday, Al Masry Al Youm reports. He added that Egypt has already secured the fuel rods to power the plant.