French Foreign minister arrives in Cairo tomorrow

The French Foreign minister Michael Barnieh will arrive in Cairo tomorrow in his first official visit to Egypt which will be dedicated to discuss the Egyptian role in Gaza in case of an Israeli withdrawal from it.

The French foreign minister will attend a dinner banquet to be held in his honor by his Egyptrian counterpart Ahmed Maher. He will be also meeting with the secretary general of the Arab league Amr Moussa and is scheduled to meet with President Hosni Mubarak on Monday. But this meeting was not confirmed yet. He will discuss with Moussa the democratic reforms process in the Arab states.

The French minister will be visiting on June 29 and 30 the West Bank and will meet in Ramullah with the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and the prime minister Ahmad Qurei' and the Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath.

On the other hand, the spokesman for the French foreign ministry Herve Ladso announced he will be visiting Algeria shortly. He said replying to a question on the news which was announced in Algeria over this visit on the first of July that it is " decided in a relatively nearby future, but has not set ultimately yet."