Mubarak receives a phone call from the Sudanese president

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received a phone conversation from Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir that tackled issues that concern the two intimate states topped by the meeting urged on by Egypt to prepare for the discussion between the Sudanese government and the opposition which Egypt adopts.

Sudanese foreign minister Mostafa Ossman Ismail who stopped over in Cairo and met his Egyptian counterpart before heading to the U.K and Italy said that he informed Cairo with the Sudanese government's consent on the participation in the coming preparatory meeting that was urged by Egypt and aims at gathering all the Sudanese factions to discuss means to restoring the national rapport to Sudan.

Ossman added that his government agreed on the Egyptian - Libyan initiative since last August, referring that the democratic national alliance which comprises the opposition forces had agreed on a preparatory meeting to be sponsored by Cairo in the framework of the Egyptian - Libyan initiative.