Tunisian, Algerian leaders to get messages from Mubarak

Foreign minister Amr Moussa is leaving Cairo later this week on a two-part North African tour, which will include Tunisia and Algeria.

Moussa is expected to hand messages from president Mubarak to the presidents of Tunisia and Algeria.

Moussa told reporters that he will co-chair a meeting of a follow up subcommittee formed to carry out the resolutions taken during the latest meeting of the Egypt-Tunisia joint higher commission.

In Algeria Moussa will continue to probe establishing a free trade zone between the two countries and will take part in a two-day meeting of the Mediterranean foreign ministers on July 11-12.

The countries will discuss political, economic and cultural relations and meet to support the Algerian democracy the latest parliamentary elections held there, and to discuss also the deadlocked Middle East peace process.

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