Abbas to visit Egypt Wednesday

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to pay a two-day visit to Cairo tomorrow, Wednesday ,where he will meet with Arab Foreign Ministers to brief them on the latest developments of the situation in Palestine and the progress of the investigations on Yasser Arafat's death. Palestine's Ambassador to Egypt and its permanent representative in the Arab League, Barakat Al-Farra on Tuesday said in a remarks to Egyptian MENA news agency that Abbas will hold talks on Thursday with his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi, on the developments of Arab situations, especially in Palestine, in addition to bilateral ties. The 138th session of the Arab League Council at the ministerial level under the chairmanship of Lebanon, starts on Wednesday at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League, with a busy agenda peppered with a meeting of the Arab Ministerial Committee on the situation in Syria.