Mubarak, Annan Discuss Mideast Issue Over Phone

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Mubarak, Annan Discuss Mideast Issue Over Phone

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday had phone talks with U.N. chief Kofi Annan on the situation in the occupied Palestinian lands, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Friday had phone talks with U.N. chief Kofi Annan on the situation in the occupied Palestinian lands, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.

During the phone conversation, initiated by Annan, the two men also discussed international efforts aimed at seeking a way out of the Palestinian-Israeli crisis, MENA said, without elaborating.

The Mubarak-Annan phone talks came at a time when a flurry of envoys have traveled to the Mideast region to make fresh diplomatic efforts to defuse the Palestinian-Israeli tensions and prod the two sides to return to negotiations.

On Thursday, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns left Egypt for Israel to continue his Mideast mission, aimed at promoting Arab-Israeli peace and helping reform the Palestinian National Authority.

Moreover, European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in Cairo on Thursday that the international community will not allow the wheels of the Mideast peace process to go through "empty round."

"Because we do not want to waste our time and energy," Solana told Xinhua in an interview following his talks with Mubarak.

"The Arab-Israeli conflict has become stumbling block for achieving stability and development in the Mideast region, and the international community is deeply worried about that," he said.

He added that the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations realized that at present, the Mideast peace process is being deadlocked due to the lack of trust between the

Arab world and Israel.

"Therefore, the four parties worked out a three-part strategy --restructuring security and administrative systems of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while rebuilding Palestinian infrastructure, helping the PNA's reform efforts to enable the PNA to serve as a government responsible for the future Palestinian state, convening an international conference on a final settlement," he said.

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