Prof. Ahmed Ghallab Mohamed, President of Aswan University, announced that one of the most important recommendations of the International Forum for Sport Tourism – prospects and aspirations of (Aswan Ahla Initiative), which emerged from the womb of the presidential initiative, Sports National Security, that launched by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, President of the Republic and implemented by Aswan University through the Faculty of Physical Education.
Dr. Ahmed Ghallab added that the International Forum witnessed the conclusion of its events in the attendance of Dr. Ashraf Sobhi-Minister of Youth and Sports.
The forum was held under the patronage of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Khaled Al-Anani, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, and Major General/ Ashraf Attia, Governor of Aswan. The forum was hosted by Aswan University and organized by the Faculty of Physical Education, and involved the most important recommendations about the announcing of holding the International Nile Championship of in the 6th of the next October in Aswan Nile after hiatus continued for 25 years what reflects the joy of the athletes from the sons of this game in Aswan.
The university formed a sports technical and scientific committee in cooperation with the Swimming Federation. To inspect the competition venues and measure the degree of water in the Nile River in Aswan, and that the University harnesses all its capabilities from Nile boats and other game tools that help the success of this race that the people of Aswan are eagerly waiting for.
Eng. Yasser Idris, Chairman of the Swimming Federation and a member of the Board of Directors of the Olympic Committee, indicated that the establishment of the International Nile Swimming race in Aswan on the sixth of next October after a hiatus of nearly a quarter century, and that comes within the framework of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s initiative, “Sports is a National Security”, to confirm Egypt’s leadership on both levels (African and States).