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But the three-day Kenya-Egypt joint commission meeting at Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, will not discuss the Nile treaty signed between the British government and the Egypt more than 40 years ago.
A new treaty is expected to be signed next month by nine countries benefiting from one of the longest rivers in the world. Yesterday, Foreign Affairs assistant minister Kembi Gitura said the three-day meeting would include talks on water in the two countries and not on the Nile, whose source, Lake Victoria, is shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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Mr Gitura said the Kenyan delegation of 73 senior officers would discuss economic issues such as trade, tourism, roads, public works, information, communication, water, irrigation, energy, agriculture, livestock, fisheries and transport.
The Egyptian team is led by assistant minister for African and African Union affairs Massou Marzouk and the Egyptian ambassador to Kenya, Mr Saher Hamiza.
The closed-door meeting will also address social sector issues on education, health, gender, sports, culture, social services and housing.
The two countries established the commission in 1984, and agreed to hold meetings regularly.
The first was in Nairobi in 1987 followed by another in Cairo in 1996. But since then, no other meeting has been held until now.
Source: The Nation
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