The Egyptian minister of foreign commerce and industry Rashid Muhammad Rashid arrived with a two-day official visit in Moscow.

In the given interview the minister informed about his plans: In the Russian capital the minister intends to hold negotiations about creation of free trade between Egypt and Russia.

The minister of foreign commerce leads the Egyptian delegation at the 5th session of the joint Egyptian-Russian commission on commercial-economic and scientific-technical collaboration, which will take place on Monday.

The visit program of Muhammad Rashid includes: business meeting with the Russian prime-minister Michael Fradkov, the chief of Rosprom Boris Aleshin, the deputy chief of Chamber of Commerce and Industry Evgeny Primakov.

"The purpose of our visit - is to raise the level of commercial-economic relations between two countries, to create the safe conditions for cooperation in different fields - trade, energy, technical collaboration, investments in Russian and Egyptian economics", - said the minister.
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