Egyptian minister of industry to visit Baghdad tomorrow

An Egyptian delegation comprising 40 businessmen and the leaders of several companies in the domains of food, engineering goods and automobile tires, chaired by Egyptian Minister of Industry Suleiman Reda, is to visit Baghdad tomorrow.

Reda's visit is considered the first for an Egyptian minister Egyptian Minister of Industry since 1990, and the third one for a minister in the Egyptian government as on June 15, 1998, Egyptian Minister of Trade and Supply Ahmed El-Goweili visited Baghdad, where he inaugurated a fair for Egyptian products, with the participation of 121 companies. Egyptian Minister of Health Ismael Salem visited Baghdad in July 1998 to inaugurate a fair for medical products, endorsing an agreement for health cooperation between the two countries.

In return, the Iraqi ministers of trade and industry visited Cairo last year, where they held talks with their Egyptian counterparts concerning mutual cooperation.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian minister of industry and Iraqi officials are to discuss the revival of the trade and industrial cooperation protocol signed between the industrial unions of the two countries in May 1996 when the first governmental economic delegation visited Iraq, chaired by the head of the industrial union, Mamdouh Thabet Meccy.