Mubarak, Arafat Mull Palestinian Ceasefire over Phone

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Mubarak, Arafat Mull Palestinian Ceasefire over Phone

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday had phone talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on a Palestinian ceasefire with Israel, the official MENA news agency reported.

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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Monday had phone talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on a Palestinian ceasefire with Israel, the official MENA news agency reported.

In addition, Mubarak made a phone call to Palestinian PrimeMinister Mahmoud Abbas on the same issue, MENA said.The phone talks "took up positive outcomes reached by variousPalestinian factions which aim at forging an unified Palestinian stand," it said.

The conversations also dealt with the ongoing contacts on anIsraeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Bethlehem to pave the way for the implementation of the so-called roadmap peace plan.

Earlier in the day, Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement confirmed that its offshoot al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades has approved a three-month truce with Israel.

On Sunday, the Fatah movement itself issued a statement, sayingit would immediately halt all military operations against the Israelis.

In addition, radical Palestinian factions Hamas and IslamicJihad have agreed on the ceasefire with Israel.The roadmap, worked out by the United States, the UnitedNations, the European Union and Russia, requires reciprocal stepstoward peace from both Israel and the Palestinians and envisions a full Palestinian statehood by 2005.

Egypt has been playing a key mediating role in resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since it signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979.

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