The Ambassador Mujtaba Amani, who heads the Iranian affairs mission in Cairo,  explained that the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will head his country’s delegation to the Islamic Summit scheduled for February 6-7, 2013 in Cairo. Ahmadinejad is the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian minister of foreign affairs, will arrive in Egypt on February 4, 2013 and will head his country’s delegation at the meeting of foreign ministers for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in order to prepare for the summit (Author not mentioned, al-Shurūq al-Jadīd, Feb. 2). Read original text in Arabic.