Lahoud telephones Mubarak and Arafat

The Lebanese daily al-Beiraq on Thursday quoted a well-informed source that the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud made a telephone call with the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat following the end of the second work session of the Arab summit on Wednesday evening which lasted for 10 minutes followed by another telephone call with the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

The paper added that as a result of these contacts, the Palestinian delegation returned back to attending the final session of the summit works.