CAIRO
Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni arrived in Egypt on Monday, two days after the Italian consulate in Cairo was struck by a car bomb.
Gentiloni is scheduled to meet Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Prime Minister Sameh Shoukry for talks on bilateral and regional issues.
On Saturday, at least one person was killed when a car bomb went off outside the Italian consulate in downtown Cairo.
The attack was later claimed by the "Province of Sinai," a Daesh-linked militant group active in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula.
Following Saturday’s blast, Gentiloni had said that his country would not be intimidated by the attack.
Egypt has been dogged by instability and political violence since the military ousted democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi in mid-2013.
