December 20, 2009
السومرية نيوز/ بيروت Alsumaria News / Beirut
Looking Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during his visit to Cairo, where he arrived Sunday afternoon, with
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and senior Egyptian officials, centered in a Cairo crisis between Iraq and Syria will sign agreement for strategic cooperation between the two countries, and research to expand the Egyptian investments in Iraq, He will also meet the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa.The al-Maliki told reporters before heading to Cairo on a two-day visit, expressed his wishes to "play a role in Cairo under the mediation with Syria, the fact that Egypt is the big sister of the Arab countries, and because we do not want to tense relations with Syria, especially as it is a neighbor and sister, and we have a lot of social and economic relations ", noting that Baghdad" did not want to embrace the Syrian Iraqi Baathist leaders worked on the implementation of the deadly bombings in Baghdad in recent times. "
The Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif met with Maliki in Cairo airport after his arrival and the Iraqi delegation facilities on board his private plane Sunday afternoon, on an official visit will last for two days.
It is due to sign a statement of al-Maliki with a clean activate strategic cooperation agreement between Egypt and Iraq, which was agreed upon last month, and to discuss with President Mubarak ways to support Iraq in its war against terrorism and the issue of facilitating the Egyptian investments in Iraq.
Maliki's visit comes weeks after the arrival of the new Egyptian ambassador to Baghdad, Sheriff Mohamed Kamal El-Din Shahin, the absence of diplomatic after four years of following the kidnapping of former Egyptian Chargé d'affaires in Baghdad, Ihab al-Sharif in July 2005 and assassinated in the process of Al Qaeda claimed responsibility.
Maliki's talks will also address benefits of Egyptians who have previously worked in Iraq and the Iraqi debt owed to a number of Egyptian companies, the situation of Iraqi refugees coming to Egypt, who are estimated to number about 100 thousand people.
Among the topics under discussion also discuss the strengthening of the Egyptian presence in Iraq, and activating the economic and trade relations and cultural relations between Cairo and Baghdad as part of the joint committee meetings held in Cairo last month, headed by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the talks will also address the role that can be played Al-Azhar in easing sectarian violence in Iraq.
Previously, an Iraqi ministerial delegation that visited Cairo beginning of last November, included in Aadadh and foreign, interior, electricity, industry, science and technology and agriculture as well as Chairman of Investment and about 20 representatives of other Iraqi ministries, where he was during his meetings with the delegation and Egyptian ministers and officials agree on a formula initial cooperation between the two countries in the areas of security and economic development.
The Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif said in his statements this week that Maliki's visit comes "to activate the agreements signed and a joint strategy between the two countries," adding that the coming period will witness an increase in the presence of Egyptian investment companies in Iraq. ", Adding that" Egypt will not give up Iraq despite the difficult security conditions, which is going through. "
It is expected that during the visit, Maliki also held talks with Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa on how the University's contribution to the reduction of external interference in Iraqi affairs, and develop relations of the Arab-Iraqi cooperation, as well as file the next legislative elections.
The telecommunications companies and has experience of the Egyptian construction investment in the Arab region, and that Egypt has hundreds of thousands of competent manpower to seek re-employment in Iraq, as was the case twenty years ago when he was about a million and a half million Egyptians working in Iraq.
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