Egypt's President Mubarak on 30 April made his first visit to Sudan in more than a decade for talks with his Sudanese counterpart, President Omar el-Bashir. The two discussed regional issues, including the war on Iraq, as well as the Sudanese peace process. Egyptian Information Minister Safwat el-Sherif told reporters that Mubarak and El-Bashir looked at potential economic integration and agreed that 'the interests of the two countries are identical -and [can] not be separated or distanced from each other'. Mubarak warned at the opening session of the talks that the civil war in Sudan was destabilising for the whole region. Cairo and Khartoum restored diplomatic relations in 2000 after several years of increased tension over the attempted assassination of Mubarak in Addis Ababa in 1995. Egypt accused Sudan of harbouring those responsible, and each government charged the other with supporting their respective domestic opponents.