Iran top MP to visit Egypt

2011.08.07 12:25

Azerbaijan, Baku, August 07/ Trend/
The Head of Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi is to meet with the Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi in his coming visit to Egypt, reported ISNA.
Boroujerdi headed to Doha on Saturday to submit Iranian Parliament Speaker's message to Speaker of Qatari Advisory Council Mohamed Bin Mubarak al-Kholaifi to invite him for the fifth international pro-Palestine conference to be held in Iran.
Boroujerdi's trip to Qatar came ahead of his visit to Egypt.
Deputy Chairman of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Esmail Kowsari will accompany Boroujerdi in the trip as well.
Iranian ambassador to Qatar, Abdollah Sohrabi told ISNA, "Boroujerdi is supposed to meet the Chairman of Qatari National Advisory Council on Sunday. The two countries will discuss different issues including regional, Islamic and the Arab World topics and recent developments in Palestine."
In 1979, diplomatic relations were cut off between Egypt and Iran because of the signing of the Camp David peace agreement between Egypt and Israel and also because then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat granted refuge to the deposed Shah of Iran, Mohammad-Reza Pahlavi.
A preliminary Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement was reached in 1978 at the Camp David summit, and Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, who were presidents at the time, signed a final peace agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1979 in Washington, which was called the Camp David agreement.
Tehran , in turn, was strongly against Egypt's peace agreement with Israel. A Tehran street is named after President Anwar Sadat's assassin, Egyptian army lieutenant Khalid al-Islambuli, who was executed in 1982. This is still considered a major obstacle in restoring relations between the nations.
Iran has made attempts to reestablish bilateral relations with Egypt since the collapse of the Husni Mubarak regime in February 2011.