Syrian - Egyptian summit expected very soon

The al-Khaleij daily issued in Sharja on Saturday quoted sources in Cairo, Damascus and Amman as saying that a bilateral Egyptian- Syrian summit will be held in Egypt very soon bringing together Presidents Bashar al-Assad and Hosni Mubarak.

The paper said that news reports issued in Amman remarked that the summit will be held in Alexandria within the few coming days and will concentrate on bilateral relations, developments on the Arab arena and the ME peace process especially on the Syrian track.

The paper noted that the Qatar's news agency quoted an Arab diplomatic sources in Damascus as expecting that the Syrian- Egyptian- Saudi coordination to reach its peak in the coming phase and that a meeting will be held between the foreign ministers of Egypt and Syria to be followed by a Summit between the two states.

The source added that Egypt and Saudi Arabia will back the Syrian negotiation position in the coming stage, financially and morally through their backing of Israel's withdrawal until behind June 4, 1967 border lines according to the land for peace agreement approved by the Madrid conference.

The source ruled out the resumption of Syrian- Israeli peace negotiations at the meantime because the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak will not accept Arab conditions, as the source stated.