Meetings of African and European foreign ministers on Sunday

European and African foreign ministers are due to convene a joint expanded meeting on Sunday in Cairo to prepare the final arrangements for the African - European summit which Egypt hosts, which will be opened by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on April 3.

The African and European ministers will discuss in detail the agenda of the summit and items of the future work plan that will be issued by the summit concerning the European - African strategic partnership, in addition to reviewing the draft of the concluding statement to be issued by the summit.

Reda Baibers, plenipotentiary advisor for African affairs in the foreign minister's bureau, said topics raised in this summit include the causes that concern the African and the European people, topped by combating terrorism in the framework of the Egyptian call to convene an international conference under U.N. auspices, as well as the topic of making Africa a zone free of nuclear weapons.