Turkish FM to visit Cairo, Turkey-Israel alliance on agenda

Turkey's foreign minister, Ismail Cem, will visit Cairo next Friday to deliver a hand-written message from Turkish President Suleyman Demirel to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak tackling the latest developments in the Middle East.

Cem will meet with his Egyptian counterpart, Amr Moussa. This meeting will deal with the outcomes of the Islamic foreign ministers' conference held in Doha, which was not attended by Moussa because of his commitment to meet with British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who visited Cairo while the conference was being held.

Cem will inform his Egyptian counterpart of the outcome of his meetings with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa on the sidelines of the meetings of the Islamic foreign minister's.

ArabicNews.com was informed that Cem will demand that military cooperation between Turkey and Israel be removed from the agenda of a meeting of Arab foreign ministers which will begin on Tuesday at Arab League headquarters.