Mubarak tours gulf states: discusses Lebanon, Syria, Hamas, Iran
Egypt-Gulf, Politics, 2/27/2006

The Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak started in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on Sunday a Gulf tour which will also lead him to Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during which he will discuss several issues, including the Syrian- Lebanese crisis and the situation of the Palestinian Authority in light of Hamas winning the Palestinian elections and the Iranian issue.

The Middle East News Agency MENA said that Mubarak discussed with the King of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad Bin Issa al-Khaleifa "developments of the current conditions in the region and means of giving the ME peace process a push forward, the situation in Iraq, and developments of the Iranian nuclear file and relations between Egypt and Bahrain," while the Bahrain's news agency said that the meeting included a revision of "topics listed on the Arab summit" to be held shortly in Khartoum.

Hamad and Mubarak called for " halting the unjustified Israeli escalation against the Palestinian people." The two leaders urged the Palestinian and Israeli sides to return back to the table of negotiations in order to find a final solution for the Arab Israeli conflict so as to ensure the national legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, especially the establishment of the Palestinian state on their own native soil with Jerusalem as capital.

The Bahraini news agency indicated that Hamad and Mubarak exchanged view points on the situation in Iraq and stressed " their joint care to exert more efforts to enable the Iraqi people to restore back their national unity, sovereignty, and independence and helping it elimination of its crisis and restoring back its effective role in the course of security, stability and peace."

Earlier in the day, Mubarak discussed with the President of the United Arab Emirates, UAE, Sheikh Khaleifa Bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the current Arab conditions and issues debated in the next Arab summit in al-Khartoum.

A UAE official source said that the talks between the two leaders centered on "current developments in the Middle East especially the Palestinian issue and the conditions in Iraq and the region in general."

Mubarak is due to visit Doha today where he will be meeting with the ruler of Qatar Sheikh Hamad Bin Khaleifa al-Thani. The Qatari representative at the Arab League Muhammad Bin Hamad al-Khaleifa said that the "conditions the region undergoes especially in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq come in the forefront of issues governed by the talks of the two leaders."

Mubarak is due to arrive in Kuwait today during a visit the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is making to hold talks with the ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.

Then, Mubarak will be moving to Saudi Arabia where he will be meeting with King Abdullah. Diplomatic sources in Riyadh explained that "developments of the situation in Iraq will be within the files to be debated by the Egyptian- Saudi summit. The summit will also deal with the developments of the Syrian- Lebanese file and means of achieving reconciliation in the relations between Damascus and Beirut in light of the results of the investigations on the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri and through the efforts of the two states to stabilize conditions in Lebanon and avert Syria any negative results of the developments relating to the UN probe to the assassination incident.

Previous Stories:
  Demonstration in Egypt protests against cartoons offending prophet Muhammad   (2/14/2006)
  An agreement between the eastern Nile countries   (2/6/2006)
  Workshop in Egypt on human rights in the Gulf states   (12/20/2003)
  Mubarak visits three Gulf states today   (1/25/2003)

Please add a link on your webiste pointing to ArabicNews.com and bookmark ArabicNews.com & subscribe to our daily email news bulletin.

Search