Norway FM arrives in Cairo tomorrow

Norweigan Minister of Foreign Affairs Knut Vollebaek will arrive in Cairo tomorrow for a two-day visit to Egypt during which he will meet with his Egyptian counterpart Amr Moussa.

A well-informed Egyptian source said that talks between the two foreign ministers will deal with efforts to salvage the Middle East peace process on the eve of convening separate meetings in London between US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Israeli Premier Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.

Norway was the catalyst in bringing Israel and the PLO into an agreement that became known as the Oslo accord, named after the Norwegian city.

During June, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar will also travel to in Cairo to hold talks with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and his counterpart Kamal el-Ganzouri on bilateral relations and the ME peace process.