Suzanne Mubarak, Sheikha Sbeika to address conference on Women in the Arab World

Egypt's First Lady Suzanne Mubarak will make a keynote address at the inaugural session Thursday of the conference on "Women in the Arab World" which is being arranged by the London-based Arab International Women's Forum.

Mrs. Mubarak, who is currently visiting London, will deal with recent positive developments as regards women in Egypt and their participation in overall development and the great attention received by Egyptian women from the political leadership and the government in all fields.

Also addressing the inaugural session will be Bahrain's First Lady Sheikha Sbeika Bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of US Vice President Dick Cheney who is the Assistant Under-Secretary of State for New East affairs, and Baroness Simons British Foreign Office Secretary for Middle East Affairs.