"Sisi confirmed to us Egypt's desire to collaborate with our country to find the right solutions," Tajani said after talks with Sisi.
The trial of Egyptian researcher Zaki was adjourned for the umpteenth time on February 28, with a court in Mansour failing to deliver a verdict and setting May 9 as the date for another hearing.
Zaki was arrested in February 2020 at Cairo airport after returning to Egypt to visit his family and is charged with allegedly spreading 'fake news'.
The case regards an article published in 2019 in which he defended Copts, a Christian minority in Egypt, stressing the bloody persecutions carried out by ISIS over the previous years and two cases of social and judicial discrimination.
He was held in jail for 22 months in pre-trial custody on more serious charges connected to 10 Facebook posts.
Although technically free, the researcher in gender studies cannot leave Egypt.
Regarding Regeni, Sisi has already repeatedly asserted his willingness to cooperate with Italian authorities in the case, which has ground to a halt amid Egypt's refusal to release the addresses of four Egyptian intelligence officers so they can be notified they are being tried in absentia for the January-February 2016 abduction, torture and murder of the 28-year-old Friuli born Cambridge University doctoral researcher.
A Rome trial of the four officers — National Security General Tariq Sabir and his subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Uhsam Helmi, and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif — has been stymied by unsuccessful efforts to inform them that they are on trial.
Regeni’s work regarding trade unions was politically sensitive and he was so badly mutilated his mother could only identify his body after recognising the tip of his nose.
Sisi has promised repeatedly to work with Rome prosecutors over the case, but no such collaboration has been forthcoming.
Regeni's parents have described Italian officials' apparent willingness to believe Sisi's reiterated willingness to cooperate in the case as, at best, naive, and, at worst, self-serving.
They have condemned continued Italian cooperation with Cairo on energy, regional stability and arms, among other things.
In other related news, Tajani, who is also Italy's deputy prime minister, said Sisi reiterated a commitment to stopping irregular migrants.
He also pledged a renewed approach to the Tunisian government to urge it to stem irregular migration form its shores, Tajani said.
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