Mubarak receives Talibani

News reports in Cairo said that the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday in Sharm Esh Sheikh received the chairman of the Kurdistani National Federation and member of the Iraqi Governing Interim council Jalal al-Talibani.

The agency explained that Mubarak and al-Talibani discussed the "current situation in Iraq and means of working for attaining stability and for supporting the Iraqis to run their own affairs.

On Tuesday, al-Talibani met in Cairo with the secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa and with the Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Maher.