Sudanese president arrives in Egypt on official visit
May 7, 2007 (CAIRO) — Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived here on Monday to pay an official visit to Egypt to tackle on means of supporting stability in Sudan and efforts to solve the problem of the western Sudanese Darfur region.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to meet with Bashir to discuss a number of topics of joint interest, topped by the Darfur issue and bilateral relations, as well as Sudan’s relation with the international community and the issue of the International Criminal Court, according to Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Suleiman Awad and Sudanese Presidential Adviser Abdullah Ali Masar.
Egyptian-Sudanese consultations are going on at all levels and Egypt supports efforts aiming at realizing a comprehensive peace in Sudan and reaching a settlement to Darfur problem, Awad added.
In late April, officials from Sudan, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council as well as the African Union, the European Union, the states of Arab League and the United Nations attended a multipartite ministerial meeting held in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
The meeting was held at a time when Darfur rebel movements were continuously boycotting a resumption of peace talks and Khartoum was under mounting pressures to approve the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur.
(Xinhua)