Ebeid discusses strategic commodities reserves

Egypt's Prime Minister, Atef Ebeid, chairs tomorrow the first meeting of the Ministerial committee on Market performance.

The meeting would discuss reports on the government policies to avail strategic commodities and up stocks of wheat, oil, sugar, tea and beans. Meanwhile, Ebeid held a meeting with Ministers of Finance, Foreign Trade and Chairman of National Democratic Party (NDP)'s Economic Committee.

The two-hour meeting dealt with the forex reserves and increase of exports by 17% over the last three months.

A number of Governors were assigned to prepare daily reports on the availability of subsidized commodities.