Egyptian Prime Minister to Visit Iraq next month

Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Essam Sharaf will visit to Baghdad next month.     During the visit Dr. Sharaf will hold talks with senior Iraqi officials on relations between the two countries, ways to push them forward and means to enhance coordination and cooperation in all fields, particularly in commercial aspects, establishment of joint ventures and the contribution of Egyptian companies and manpower in the reconstruction of Iraq.    The Egyptian Prime Minister''s media advisor Dr. Ahmad Al-Samman said preparations for the visit and its date were currently under way, adding that the payment of yellow remittances of Egyptian workers who used to work in Iraq will be among the issues which the Egyptian Prime Minister will discuss in Iraq. Earlier in the month, Dr. Sharaf met with the Iraqi Minister of Labor and Social Affairs who visited Cairo to take part in the Arab Labour Conference. The Iraqi Minister promised to solve this problem as soon as possible.