The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to grant a third of the salary of the Egyptian ambassadors working abroad in the Egyptian pound and the thirds in the foreign currency.
Deputy Hazem Omar, Chairman of the Foreign, Arab and African Affairs Committee in the Senate, said during the discussion of the amendments to the diplomatic corps law in the general session of the Council that rationalizing the spending contained in the draft law submitted by the government to amend the diplomatic corps relates to technical offices and not diplomatic.
He added that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made decisions to rationalize spending, the most recent of which was to grant a third of the salary of the ambassadors in the Egyptian pound and the two -thirds in foreign currency.
The deputy expressed his strong fear that the technical offices are present in the embassies, and therefore the legal centers are similar with the members of the diplomatic corps and technical offices and the distinction between them, which will lead to a kind of elaborate and work uncomfortable because the law targeted a specific category without another category, as the Al -Masry Al -Youm website reported.
And the amendments that take place that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in agreement with the competent ministers, may delegate employees from other ministries to fill the positions of technical attaches in technical offices abroad, provided that the financial degree prescribed for the jobs they occupy does not increase the financial degree prescribed for the job consultant in the diplomatic corps and its equivalent The consular wire.
The adjustments also include that the scar is for a year, and it may be renewed for another year, throughout the duration of his career.
Without prejudice to the provisions of Law No.
29 of 1981 regarding the financial transaction of members of the Ministry of Defense offices attached to the representative missions of Egypt abroad, these technicians are granted additional salaries, representation allowance, sums, other in -kind benefits, and customs exemptions prescribed for representation jobs equivalent to their jobs, in a way that does not exceed allowances, salaries and benefits prescribed for the occupants of the job of a job.
A consultant of diplomatic corps or its equivalent corps in the same mission in which they work.
Source: Al -Masry Al -Youm.
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