Mubarak invites Putin to visit Egypt

Vladimir Godaiev, Russia's ambassador in Cairo, said that Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa addressed an invitation in the name of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Egypt.

Following his meeting with the foreign minister at the end of his work in Cairo, Godaiev said Moussa renewed Mubarak's invitation to the Russian president, adding that the foreign minister previously delivered the invitation to the Russian president during his latest visit to Moscow in February.

He said Russia is looking forward to enhancing its relations with Egypt and the Russian president intends to visit Egypt later on, saying in answering journalists' questions in the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry that the new Russian ambassador in Egypt is Andre Dinisov, who was manager of the economic relations management in the Russian Foreign Ministry.