Cairo, Sha'ban 28, 1439, May 14, 2018, SPA -- President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi received here today Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Sports Authority of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Turki bin Abdulmohsen Al Al-Sheikh and ministers of youth and sports participating in the meeting of the Council of Arab Ministers of Youth and Sports being held in Cairo, in the presence of Egyptian Minister of Youth and Sports, Khalid Abdulaziz, who is also President of the Executive Bureau of the Council of Arab Ministers of Youth and Sports. Ambassador Bassam Radi, the spokesman of the Egyptian presidency said in a statement today that President Al-Sisi stressed during the meeting the importance of the role of Arab youths and sports ministries in the current stage of the Arab nation as well as the importance of the youtha sector in maintaining the Arab national security. He also said that the Egyptian President stressed the importance of creating an Arab strategy to invest the energies of the Arab youtha in various fields in order to immunize them against extremist ideologies. --SPA 17:25 LOCAL TIME 14:25 GMT 0025 www.spa.gov.sa/w688240