Mubarak, Shareh Discuss Syrian-Israeli Peace TalksEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak met on Saturday with Syrian Foreign Minister Faruk Shareh to discuss the latest developments of the Syrian-Israeli peace talks.Details of the talks were not immediately available. Shareh arrived here earlier Saturday for a brief visit, during which he would deliver a message to Mubarak from Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Egypt's Middle East News Agency reported. The message was expected to deal with the latest developments of the peace negotiations between Syria and Israel, the news agency said. After meeting United States President Bill Clinton in Washington at the end of March, Mubarak said he planned to contribute to unblock the Syrian-Israeli negotiations and that he could soon meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Mubarak's efforts came followed the failure of the March 26 U.S. -Syrian summit in Geneva aimed at revitalizing the Syrian-Israeli talks, which have been stalled since January due to disputes over Israel's full withdrawal from the Golan Heights it seized from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War. Mubarak, as president of the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, is a key mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace talks. |
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