El-Bashir not specific on date of his visit

The Sudanese state minister for foreign affairs, Mostafa Osman Ismael, said that Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir will visit Egypt, yet he didn't specify a date for the visit.

At the same time he said Sudanese parliament head Hassan El-Torabi will not participate in the exceptional conference for the Arab Parliamentary Union to be held in Luxor today.

Meanwhile, El-Bashir said that his country's government will grant the Sudanese liberation popular movement headed by Colonel John Garang, its last chance in coming negotiations during April.

He also added that his country is exerting its utmost to obtain comprehensive normalization with Egypt and that he will visit Cairo to follow up on what was agreed upon during the last visit of the Sudanese vice president, general El-Zobair Mohammed Saleh, and to discuss means of normalizing Egyptian - Sudanese relations.