Egypt, S. Arabia, Syria Voice Desire for Peace With Israel

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Egypt, S. Arabia, Syria Voice Desire for Peace With Israel

The leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria Saturday night expressed common desire for peace with Israel and rejection of all forms of violence in a statement.

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The leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria Saturday night expressed common desire for peace with Israel and rejection of all forms of violence in a statement.

The common stand was declared at the end of a summit among Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul-Aziz and Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad at Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh.

During the three-way summit, the leaders discussed the latest situation in the occupied Palestinian lands, the stalled peace process, a proposed international peace conference and the crown prince's recent visit to the United States.

The summit drew worldwide attention as efforts to resolve the 19-month Palestinian-Israel conflict entered a crucial stage, where Israel said its troops had pulled out of the Palestinian self-rule areas in the West Bank, a key condition for the restart of a truce talk.

The peace chorus of the three major power brokers in the region will have its bearing on the fate of the international peace conference announced by the United States nine days ago.

All the three countries are almost certain to be indispensable players if there is really a conference of the kind to be held this summer as being proposed.

While the Arab mini-summit was held at Sharm El Sheikh, Israel decided to put on hold the much anticipated reprisal incursion into the Gaza Strip, which borders both Israel and Egypt.

Amid the international uproar against violence and for a chance of peace, the Israeli cabinet said Saturday that it would temporarily shelve the retaliation because of the leak of details of its military plan against Gaza.

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