Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will arrive in Cairo Sunday for a two-day visit, during which he will meet with President Mohamed Morsy and other top Egyptian officials, Sudan's official news agency SUNA reported on Wednesday.
This will be Bashir's first visit to Egypt since Morsy was elected and SUNA cited his press secretary Emad Sayyed Ahmed as saying that the visit is part of ongoing communication between the two countries.
Bashir is expected to tackle ways to bolster bilateral relations during his visit.
According to Sudanese Ambassador to Egypt Kamal Hassan, Bashir will be accompanied by a senior delegation that includes his foreign minister, the head of intelligence and the ministers of agriculture, electricity, animal resources and industry.
Bashir visited Cairo in March 2011 following the overthrow of ex-President Hosni Mubarak and met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood’s leadership. Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief and reform activist Mohamed ElBaradei refused to meet with him at the time.
The International Criminal Court charged Bashir with committing war crimes in Darfur and issued an arrest warrant against him in March 2009. In July 2010, it brought additional charges of genocide against him. However, officials from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry have said that Bashir would not be arrested on any visit to the country.
“Cairo will not adopt any measures that go against its policies and historical relations with the brotherly Sudanese nation,” said Mahmoud Ezzat, head of the Foreign Ministry’s judicial department.
