EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT MUBARAK TO VISIT MOSCOW IN YEAR'S FORMER HALF








MOSCOW, MARCH 11, RIA NOVOSTI - On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. In order to maintain regular Russo-Egyptian top-level contacts, Messrs. Putin and Mubarak agreed to arrange a Moscow visit by the Egyptian president in the first half of this year, says the Russian presidential press service. 


	The date of President Mubarak's visit to Moscow will be coordinated through diplomatic channels, said the presidential press service. 


	The two presidents discussed by telephone "topical issues of bilateral cooperation, also touching upon Middle Eastern settlement."