ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece said on Thursday it had agreed with Egypt on the future of St Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai, one of the world’s oldest sites of Christian worship whose status had led to a diplomatic spat between the two countries.

Athens had expressed concern about plans by Egypt to develop a tourism project around the site, where by Biblical tradition Moses received the Ten Commandments. The UNESCO World Heritage Site is still houses Greek Orthodox monks.

Earlier this year, an Egyptian court ruling ordered the monks to vacate several plots of land and worship facilities that monks have used for centuries, on the grounds that they were illegally sequestered.

But after negotiations, Greece and Egypt have finalised an out of court deal that will be sign

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