Iran's FM to visit Cairo

IRAN: Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi will visit Egypt on January 9 for a two-day trip aimed at discussing the Syria crisis and Tehran-Cairo bilateral talks, media reports said on Saturday.

Salehi will meet his counterpart Mohammed Kamel Amr and President Mohamed Morsi during his stay in Cairo, said Mojtaba Amani, the head of Tehran's interests section in the Egyptian capital, according to the ISNA news agency.

Egypt's official MENA news agency, quoting Amr who is on a visit to Riyadh, said Salehi's visit was taking place in the context of "reviving the initiative of President Mohamed Morsi as per the contact group on Syria." Salehi was in Cairo in mid-September for a meeting of the contact group on conflict-stricken Syria.

AFP