Arab economic conference begins in Cairo on Tuesday

Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri is to inaugurate on September 14 the greatest economic conference witnessed by Cairo this year, organized by the Egyptian government in cooperation with the El-Youromani corporation and titled "The growing Arab economies are the entrance gate to the coming century."

A number of Arab and Egyptian ministers, including Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa, the Egyptian economy minister and ministers of economy, finance, trade and industry from Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman, are to participate in the three-day conference.

Economics and trade professionals, central banks in Egypt and the Arab states and more than 800 businessmen and investors from Egypt, the Arab states, the USA and Europe are to take part in the conference.

Meanwhile, the head of Egypt's international economic forum, Mohammed Shafif Gabr, said the conference aims at discussing the current situation of the Arab economies, supporting their economic abilities at the start of the coming century and upgrading financial institutions based on the principal of transparency.