Clinton urges efforts to stop confrontations in the Palestinian territories

US President Bill Clinton on Sunday stressed his care to continue developing all efforts to stop the bloody confrontations in the Palestinian territories and the need to rescue the ME peace process.

The advisor for the chairman of the Palestinian President Nabil Abu Rudinah said that Clinton offered during his telephone call with Arafat his condolences to him and to the Palestinian people over the victims of the bloody confrontations.

In Madrid a Spanish official source said that the prime minister Jose Maria Aznar reviewed during two telephone calls he held with Arafat and Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak making mediation to end the recently erupted confrontations which resulted in tens of killings and almost one thousand wounded since last Thursday.

Earlier, the US President talked with the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on developments of conditions in Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories.

Meantime, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat have agreed to meet October 4 in Paris with U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. A statement by Albright said "In view of the serious escalation of violence in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, President Clinton has asked me to invite Prime Minister Barak and Chairman Arafat to meet with me on Wednesday. The two leaders have agreed," Albright said in a statement released from Paris late October 2.