President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday27/3/2007 received visiting former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami at the Helioplis presidential headquarters on Tuesday morning.


President Mubarak hosted a breakfast banquet in honour of Khatami.


Premier Dr.Ahmed Nazif and Sadeq Qaradhi, the deputy chairman of inter-civilizations dialogue organisation was present.

Al-Azhar University will host on Thursday 29/3/2007 former Iranian President Mohamed Khatami currently visiting Egypt to take part in the proceedings of the 19th General Conference of the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs.


Kahtami will give a lecture at Mohammed Abdu Auditorium at Al-Darrasa district on conditions in the Muslim world.


A statement issued by Al-Azhar University said Khatami will meet with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Sayyed Tantawi and Minister of Awqaf Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, in addition to Al-Azhar University President Ahmed Al-Tayyeb, his deputies and a number of senior officials.


For his part, Mohammad Kahtami reaffirmed in a Bibliotheca Alexandrina seminar on cultural dialogue that Egypt and Iran are two strong arms and wings for the Islamic world.


Before an audience of many intellectuals, Khatami said that President Hosni Mubarak and himself had reaffirmed that they wanted good relations between their countries and to avoid instability that lead to terrorism and war.


In his statements, Kahtami said that his uranium enriching programme never targeted the production of nuclear weapons but rather supplying a source of energy for the coming generations.