LONDON (Sputnik) — Cairo understands UK concerns over security in Egypt after a Russian airliner en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi said Thursday.
On October 31, an Airbus A321 operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board were killed in what has become the largest civil aviation disaster in Russian and Soviet history.
"We understood their concerns," Sisi said at a joint press conference following talks with UK Prime Minister David Cameron in London.
The Egyptian president said that Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport had been checked together with British experts 10 months ago, and expressed interest in expanding such cooperation.
Several major international airlines, including Air France, Lufthansa, and Emirates, have announced decisions to suspend their flights over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after the crash of the Russian aircraft.
Earlier in the day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was premature to point out a specific theory of what might have caused the crash.
