Azza Ibrahim to head Iraqi delegation to the Arab summit

Azza Ibrahim, the deputy chairman of the revolution leadership council, will be heading Iraq's delegation to the urgent Arab summit conference that will be held in Cairo on Saturday.

Informed diplomatic sources said that the Iraqi delegation will comprise deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz ", foreign minister Mohammed Saeed el Sahaf and culture and information minister Hammam Abd El-Khalek.

The Iraqi president Saddam Hussein sent on last Sunday a message to the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in which he informed him with Iraq's approval to attend the summit and apologized for not attending it personally.