US President Barack Obama will meet Egypt's President Muhammad Mursi at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, officials said.
"President Obama extended an invitation to President Mursi to visit the US when he attends the UN General Assembly in September," Egyptian aide Yasser Ali said after Mursi met US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns in Cairo.
Burns pledged US support for Egypt's economy and said he welcomed Mursi's promise to uphold international treaties.
"We have taken careful note and appreciated President Mursi's public statements about a commitment to international obligations and we certainly attach great importance to Egypt's continuing role as a force for peace," Burns was quoted as saying in a Reuters report.
"The US is firmly committed to doing everything that we can to support Egypt's economic revival. We understand the challenges that lie ahead and also the president does," Burns said after his two-hour meeting with Mursi.
Burns, whose trip precedes a visit to Egypt on July 14 by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said he had discussed a $ 3.2 billion loan package that Cairo has been negotiating with the International Monetary Fund.
"We talked in general terms about the value of moving ahead with the IMF in the interest of Egypt, trying to work out an equitable agreement that addresses Egypt's concerns and needs," he said, according to Reuters.
He said the IMF package "can produce not only much needed resources but also sends an important positive signal to investors and donors and Egyptians as they move ahead on economic revival."
Also yesterday, Egypt's military council, which handed powers to the president recently, held an emergency meeting to discuss a presidential decree ordering the dissolved parliament to reconvene.
