India and Egypt upgraded their ties to a Strategic Partnership

Background

During the State Visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Egypt in June 2023, an agreement was signed upgrading bilateral relations to a Strategic Partnership. On that visit the Prime Minister was conferred the Order of the Nile, the highest civilian award of Egypt. President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi had paid his second State Visit to India in January 2023 as Chief Guest at India's seventy-fourth Republic Day celebrations, and returned in September 2023 for the G20 Leaders' Summit. India had invited Egypt as a Guest Country during its G20 Presidency. Prime Ministerial visits from India to Egypt since the 1980s have been made by Rajiv Gandhi in 1985, P. V. Narasimha Rao in 1995, I. K. Gujral in 1997, Manmohan Singh in 2009 for the NAM Summit, and Narendra Modi in 2023.