Clinton, Barak held telephone talks

A telephone call was made on Monday evening between the US President Bill Clinton and the resigned Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, lasted for half an hour.

The spokesman for the White House B. J. Crawly said that talks dealt with current developments and means of halting the Palestinian Intifada, the arrival of the fact finding commission into the occupied lands and the reasons behind the resignation of Barak as a prime minister in Israel.