Dr. Khaled El-Enany, Minister of Antiquities, received today Japanese Ambassador in Cairo Masaki Noke and his accompanying delegation from the Japanese Embassy and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), to discuss the preparations needed for holding the opening ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum, in light of the approaching completion of the museum’s construction works and its opening in the last quarter of 2020.
The two sides discussed the possibility of the Japanese side providing technical support for operating the museum after its opening, as a continuation of the successful Egyptian-Japanese partnership in building this huge cultural edifice through the provision of two soft loans totaling more than $750 million.
