Egyptian FM to head to Zambia on Wednesday

Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is due to head the day after tomorrow to Lusaka, capital of Zambia, to head Egypt's delegation to meetings of the foreign ministers of the COMESA countries that will be held in Lusaka on Thursday and Friday.

He will also head meetings of the second session of the joint committee between Egypt - and Zambia that will be held in Lusaka on April 27 and 28.

The Egyptian delegation will include businessmen, the industrial unions and the social fund for development as well as international fair organizations. Cooperation agreements between Egypt and Zambia in different fields will be signed to encourage and protect investment, ban double taxation and promote cooperation in the health and medication fields. An agreement for continuous coordination and consultations between the two foreign ministries will also be signed.

Moussa will stop over in Khartoum airport to hold talks will his Sudanese counterpart, Mostafa Othman Ismael concerning the topics raised on the agenda of the Sudanese- Egyptian joint committee under the chairmanship of the foreign ministers that is scheduled to be held in Cairo next month.