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Israeli FM Meets with Mubarak on Egyptian-Jordanian Peace Plan
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres met Sunday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for talks on ways of ending the Palestinian-Israeli clashes and reviving the Mideast peace process.
Peres arrived in Cairo at 08:15 local time (0515 GMT), the first visit to Egypt by a senior Israeli official since hardline Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took office early March. Peres went into talks with his Egyptian counterpart Amr Moussa immediately after arrival.
Israel has said that it is considering a peace plan proposed by Egypt and Jordan calling for an end to the seven-month violence between the Palestinians and Israel, confidence-building measures and a return to peace negotiations.
But Sharon has said that he wants significant changes in the proposal, and Peres is expected to raise Israel's reservations with Mubarak and King Abdullah of Jordan. Peres will travel to the Jordanian port of Aqaba to meet with the king later on Sunday.
More than 480 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed since the Palestinian-Israeli clashes were triggered last September by Israeli violation of an Islamic holy site in East Jerusalem.
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