An official French delegation of eight representatives of various ministries has begun negotiations in Cairo for “the expansion of trade relations” between France and Egypt, it was announced here today. The delegation includes officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Ministries of Industry. Trade and Agriculture, and is headed by Maurice de Courson, of the Foreign Ministry, who holds the rank of special envoy and minister plenipotentiary. The negotiations, it was announced, are taking place within the framework of the France-Egyptian trade agreement signed last year.
Meanwhile, Cairo dispatches received by the French press today reported that another delegation, headed by Emmanuel Mayolle, vice-president of the French National Association of Industrialists, finished a 10-day visit to Egypt today, after concluding negotiations for French participation in Egypt’s forthcoming five-year development plan.
On behalf of the industrialists and bankers on the delegation, M. Mayolle was reported here telling the Egyptian press that the group “intends, upon its return to France, to call on French industrial circles to closely and sympathetically examine their possible participation in the realization of Egypt’s five-year development plan.”
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