President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received Thursday a phone call from Italian PM Matteo Renzi over the EgyptAir plane crash. Renzi expressed his country's full support and solidarity with Egypt, stressing on his country's readiness to send a plane to participate in the ongoing research activities in the Mediterranean. President Sisi has expressed appreciation for Renzi's stances, reflecting the depth of the bonds of friendship between the two peoples and between the Egyptian and Italian governments.