German foreign minister eyes Egypt visit

By IRNA,

Berlin : German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is planning to visit Egypt ‘in the near future,’ an official said here on Monday.


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Addressing media representatives in the German capital, foreign ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke said there were plans for such a trip whereby Westerwelle would be one of the first western leaders to visit Egypt since the forced resignation of deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

A close ally of the Mubarak regime, Germany, was reluctant to openly back Egypt’s freedom movement.

Mubarak had received billions of euros in development aid from Germany during his 30-year rule, mainly because of his staunch pro-Zionist regime stance.

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