Mubarak's Khartoum visit 'injected new blood in integration agreements'
Egypt-Sudan, Politics, 5/5/2003

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak's ground breaking visit to Sudan, the first in more than 12 years, was historic. It injected new blood in integration agreements between Egypt and Sudan.

Information Minister Safwat Al Sherif said that President MubarakÕs talks dealt with means to activate organisations set up within the framework of Egyptian-Sudanese integration and reviving all elements of integration agreements between the two states.

President Mubarak and Sudanese President Omar Bashir were keen to stress SudanÕs unity.

The two Presidents are keen that the new generation in Egypt and Sudan should be aware of the importance of integration, Sherif said. Agreement was reached to arrange mutual visits between the youth of the two countries in groups each made up of 100 young people.

Sudanese youth will join the international youth camp at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and Egyptian youth will visit Khartoum and southern Sudanese areas.

The higher Egyptian-Sudanese committee will meet in July under the co-chairmanship of the Prime Ministers of the two countries.

Sherif, who is also secretary general of the National Democratic Party (NDP), speaking before a meeting of the NDP Political Club, referred to cooperation between political parties in Egypt and Sudan and said that during President Mubarak's visit to Sudan, several meetings were held with leaderships of Sudanese parties including a meeting with Ibrahim Omar, secretary general of the ruling National Congress in Sudan.

Sherif said that the success of integration between Egypt and Sudan in the fields of trade and agriculture is a nucleus which could be emulated to set up an Arab Common Market.

Youssef Wali, Deputy Premier and Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, speaking at the meeting of the NDP Political Club, said that Egyptian and Sudanese experts, who met in Cairo recently, were guided in their discussions by the directives of President Mubarak and President Bashir who stressed that it was necessary to begin a new stage in relations between the two countries within the framework of the natural integration between the two peoples of the Nile Valley.

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