Moussa heads to the USA on Saturday

Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is starting on Saturday a visit to the United States that includes a tour of some U.S cities in the framework of preparing for a visit that will be paid by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the US starting on June 26.

Moussa will start his tour by visiting Chicago, where he will attend on Monday an economic symposium about investment in Egypt that is organized by one of the major American organizations, the Mid American Committee, as well as convening meetings with heads of Jewish groups in Chicago.

He will also head to Detroit on Tuesday, where he will meet with the high officials in the car industry, as well as meeting with Arab - Americans.

He will the head to New York to hold a meeting at the Nasdaq stock market and deliver a lecture about the Egyptian economy.

Then he will arrive in Washington on June 24, where he will meet with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and members of Congress, as well as governmental officials to make the final arrangements for President Mubarak's agenda.