European and Arab leaders are to hold their first summit Sunday (February 24th), AFP reported.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will host the two-day summit in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss topics like security, trade, development and migration.
Wars and conflicts in places such as Syria and Libya are on the agenda.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini insists that the gathering in Egypt of more than 40 heads of state and government is about much more than migration.
"We will have frank, open discussions, not only on migration, definitely not," she said Monday. "We will have first of all discussions on our economic co-operation, on our common region."
Attending will be Donald Tusk, president of the European Council of EU member countries, and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, the EU's executive arm.
EU officials said 25 European heads of state and government will attend, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Theresa May and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
Al-Sisi and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri will attend from the 22-member Arab League. It is not yet clear who else will be present.
