CAIRO, May 8 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has congratulated Pope Leo XIV on his election as Pope of the Vatican.

"Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I am pleased to extend my heartfelt congratulations and sincere wishes on the occasion of your election as Pope of the Vatican. I wish Your Holiness every success and prosperity in your blessed mission," Sisi said on his official Facebook page on Thursday.

"I am fully confident that Your Holiness will carry forward the legacy of promoting peace and love, upholding noble values and ethics, and rejecting violence, hatred, and war," the president added.

"I am pleased that we will work together for a better world marked by peace, development, stability, tolerance, and mutual respect," he noted.

"With my best wishes for continued health, well-being, and success," Sisi concluded. (MENA)

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