Egyptian PM to visit Ethiopia next week
By Dereje Berhanu
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia- the Egyptian Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif accompanied, by several cabinet ministers will visit Ethiopia next week .the delegation include ministers and Egyptian business community and is expected to reach agreements on a series of fields, especially in agriculture, trade and industry, water resources and irrigation

The delegation will meet with Ethiopian government officials, parliamentary and others.
The Egyptian business delegation plan to meet with their Ethiopian counterparts at the Addis Ababa chamber of commerce.

According to Egyptian government the PM’s  visit to Ethiopia is to encourage business between Egypt and the Nile Basin countries

Ethiopia had been exporting meat to Egypt but it had been interrupted in connection to the health of the meat.  To continue to import Ethiopian meat Egyptian government plan to send an Egyptian permanent resident veterinary mission to Ethiopia to ensure the safety of the meat imported from there.

Egypt’s foreign policy considers Ethiopia as one of the most important to Egypt, Nile river with 85 percent coming from the Ethiopian plateau, and only 15 percent from the Equatorial plateau.

Nile Basin states Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have accepted a shared vision on the cooperative utilization and management of the Nile waters to scale up the initiative towards a cooperative stage. Egypt and Sudan however believe that the agreement should include the colonial agreement of 1929 and 1959 that states their historical and natural right on the Nile.