Egyptian - Jordanian talks stress deep links, full understanding

"The talks held by President Mubarak Friday and Saturday in Damascus and Amman were successful and have stressed the deep links and full understanding between Cairo on one side and Syria and Jordan on the other," Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said.

"Mubarak's talks in Damascus were part of the Egyptian-Syrian coordination as regards the Arab situation, peace developments, and maintaining Mubarak-Assad periodical summits," he added.

"The talks took up the peace process on the Syrian track. President Mubarak was briefed in details on that score," Moussa expounded.

"Assad explained the Syrian position in light of the recent round of talks held under the American sponsorship," he said.

Syria, Moussa said, responded to what peace requires, notably on security arrangements, peace relations, but the Israeli side showed procrastination on border demarcation and water.

"Syria did not hesitate to respond to the peace quest in a bid to achieve a fair and comprehensive peace," he said.

Moussa asserted that Cairo is keen on working fast to resume the talks anew.

"Egypt will exert its utmost to remove all obstacles before peace," he said, stressing that Egypt supports Israel's withdrawal to the pre-June 4, 1967 borders.

On Mubarak's visit to Jordan, Moussa said it is part of coordination between the President and King Abdullah II. Mubarak-Abdullah summit dwelt over moves made to activate the Syrian and Palestinian peace tracks.

Presidential Political Adviser Osama el-Baz said President Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah II of Jordan discussed during their meeting Sunday in the Jordanian capital, Arab conditions and developments of the peace process.

"The two leaders agreed on the need to give a strong push to the peace march, in order to boost efforts exerted in quest of a settlement on the Palestinian track," Baz told Middle East News Agency (MENA).

"The Egyptian and Jordanian views were identical concerning the necessity for obtaining Israel's approval for the Syrian demand to end the work of the border demarcating committee, to make it clear that Israel no longer hesitates in acknowledging the line to which it should withdraw, namely June 4, 1967 borderline," he said.

"This is a just and natural Syrian demand in order to move to other topics on the agenda of Syrian-Israeli negotiations," he added.