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Mubarak resumes activities after recovery

By-EG

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Sunday ,21 March 2010

Mubarak resumes activities after recovery

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resumed his activities on Friday, 12 days after a successful gallbladder operation in Germany, Egyptian television reported Saturday.

Photo showing President Mubarak (R) resuming his activities to follow up the country's affairs and the development of current events.

"President Mubarak made several phone calls this day morning to follow up on the country's affairs and the development of current events," the report said.
    Mubarak phoned  Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, the chiefs of the Parliament's two houses and ministers of defence, interior and foreign affairs as well as the chief of Egyptian intelligence, added the State-run Nile TV.
    Mubarak also called Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He is also expected to call a number of other heads of state during the coming hours, the report added.
    Mubarak issued a number of presidential decrees including one by which he appointed a new sheikh for Al-Azhar.
      He also referred a bill on modifying the constituencies for the Shura Council (the Upper House of Parliament) and signed a number of agreements ratified by the Parliament.
     Mubarak, 81, received successful cholecystectomy surgery on March 6 in Germany after he suffered acute gall bladder inflammation, accompanied by gall stones.