Iraqi activities in Egypt

The Secretary General of the Arab league ( AL) Ismat Abdul Miguid on Sunday in Cairo received Iraq's foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf.

The two sides discussed topics listed on the agenda of the 114th session of the AL's council On the other hand, meetings of the 8th session of the joint Egyptian- Iraqi trade committee were concluded on Sunday. They had started four days earlier.

Egypt's minister of the economy and foreign trade Youssef Butrous Ghali and his Iraqi counterpart Muhammad Mahdi Saleh had agreed to have the volume of trade relations between the two countries to a rate exceeding US $ one billion annually.

The two sides expressed their satisfaction over the high rates in implementing joint plans which reflect the joint interests to backing all- out cooperation between the two states.