CAIRO: Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is to travel to Egypt on Sunday for a two-day official visit where he will hold talks with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and other senior officials. The Press Secretary to Bashir, Imad Sid-Ahmed, said in a statement on Tuesday that the visit would “be the first which the president would be making to Egypt after election of Mohamed Morsi as president of Egypt and was aimed at continuity of the consultations between the presidents of the two neighboring countries.” He added that the visit of to Egypt also comes “as part of the official and people's contacts between the two countries.” Sid-Ahmed explained that the talks between Bashir and Morsi will “review ways of boosting bilateral relations in different fields and issues of concern to the peoples of Sudan and Egypt.” Meanwhile, Sudanese Ambassador to Cairo Kamal Hassan Ali said the visit of Bashir would “prove the prevalence of will at the highest level in both Sudan and Egypt to prop up implementation of joint projects and the agreements that they had signed concerning the four freedoms and implementing the land transport project by inaugurating the road linking Sudan and Egypt.”
