Prime Minister Mark Carney has travelled to Egypt to take part in a last-minute summit regarding the peace plan U.S. President Donald Trump arranged between Israel and Hamas.
Carney left Canada on the afternoon of Oct. 12 to head to Egypt, where he is expected to join leaders from more than 20 countries in the Red Sea City of Sharm El-Sheikh, where Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi says he will co-chair a “peace summit.”
Government leaders will be represented from across the Middle East, as well as France, Germany, and the U.K.
Carney’s Oct. 12 itinerary was updated roughly three hours before his plane was set to depart, saying he would be heading to Egypt to “attend the signing of a Middle East peace plan,” an event that will be closed to the media. The media had not been notified of Carney’s trip ahead of time….