An agreement to reciprocate Egypt, and Sudan citizens rights signed; freedom to move, live, work and own

Egypt and Sudan yesterday signed an agreement for exchanging rights of the citizens of the two countries. The agreement which was signed in the presence of the Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Muhammad Hosni Mubarak of Egypt allows the citizens of the two countries to move, live and work and own in each of the other's country in the context of what is known the " four freedoms ( the freedom to move, live, work and own.)

On the Egyptian side the agreement was signed by the foreign minister Ahmed Maher and the Sudanese side by the foreign minister Mustafa Othman Ismael. The Presidents of the two countries had agreed in Cairo's talks in January to convene a meeting on exchanging the rights of their citizens in the framework of what seen by the officials of the two countries as a completion of the economic integration systems between Egypt and Sudan..

However, the Sudanese President is visiting Cairo in the course of consultations with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak holds to convene the Arab summit after it was postponed in Tunisia.