CAIRO, May 9 (Aswat Masriya) – Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shukri will begin a visit to New York on Monday to chair a United Nations Security Council meeting on “combating the ideological discourse of terrorist organisations,” the foreign ministry’s spokesman said. 

Egypt holds the presidency of the Security Council in May under a monthly rotational system that includes the council’s member states in alphabetical order. 

The upcoming ministerial-level Security Council meeting was called for by Egypt, which is set to promote issues related to African interests and Palestine during its presidency of the U.N. body, the Egyptian foreign ministry said in April. 

Shukri’s visit to New York will last for three days. The foreign minister will also attend a meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, hold bilateral meetings other officials and speak to a number of media outlets, the ministry's spokesman Ahmed Abu Zaid said in today's statement. 

Egypt started its two-year non-permanent membership of the Security Council in January.

Since the military ouster of former president Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013, which followed mass protests against his rule, Egypt has been lobbying the international community to designate the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation, which neither the United states nor Europe has done.

Egypt insists that the Brotherhood is behind a wave of militancy that has targeted security personnel in the country since Mursi's ouster, while the group continuously denies the accusations.

A U.S.-led international coalition against terror focuses on fighting the Islamic State militant group, which controls parts of Syria and Iraq.