Mubarak, Assad Mull Mideast Situation

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Mubarak, Assad Mull Mideast Situation

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and visiting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad began talks on the Mideast situation Wednesday afternoon, Egypt's official MENA news agency said.

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and visiting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad began talks on the Mideast situation Wednesday afternoon, Egypt's official MENA news agency said.

During the talks, the two leaders were expected to discuss Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Aziz's peace proposal and the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Assad arrived here earlier in the day for a short visit to Egypt.

On Tuesday, Assad met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal on the Saudi proposal in the Syrian capital of Damascus.

Last month, the Saudi crown prince raised his proposal, which offers the normalization of ties between Arab states and Israel in exchange for the latter's withdrawal from all the Arab lands it occupied in the 1967 Mideast War.

Earlier this month, the official Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar reported that the framework of the Saudi peace proposal has been mapped out, and will be reviewed by Arab leaders at an Arab summit to be held in Lebanon on March 27-28.

Once the Saudi proposal is passed at the summit, it will be an Arab peace plan, the newspaper said.

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