Egyptian move to support multilateral negotiations

Sayed Kasem El-Masri, the Egyptian assistant foreign minister for multilateral international relations, started a series of meetings with ambassadors from the international regional groups ratified in Cairo as he met today in the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry.

The first of these meetings will be with ambassadors of the Arab states and he will also to convene two other meetings tomorrow with the African and Asian countries, then a meeting with ambassadors of the European countries, of the two American countries and Australia on February 14.

El-Masri said after his meeting with ambassadors from the Arab group that he presented during the meeting Egypt's stances and its contributions through the United Nation's last session and in international political activities during 1999, the last meeting of which was by the ministerial management committee of the multilateral negotiations that met in Moscow at the beginning of this month.