French diplomatic activity in Cairo

French Secretary of State for Tourism Michelle Demessine is to arrive in Cairo on Tuesday to start a three-day visit at the initiation of Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mamdouh El-Beltagi, a press statement released by the French embassy in Cairo today said.

The statement said that Demessine will meet with a number of high-ranking officials in the Egyptian tourism sector, at the top of which comes the Egyptian minister. The statement added that the French minister will head to Luxor to inaugurate along with Beltagi the general conference for the national syndicate of travel and tourism agents, held within the frame of French efforts to encourage tourism in Egypt.

This syndicate is a vocational organization comprising French travel agents.

Meanwhile, Catherine Brechignac, the general manager of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), is to arrive in Cairo on Friday at the head of a large delegation conducting an official one-week visit, during which Brechignac will meet with Egypt's minister of education, culture and scientific research.