Mubarak informs Sharon on security arrangements in Gaza

In a telephone call, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt informed the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon on the " security measures " taken by Egypt along the borders with Israel and Gaza.

A statement by the Israeli government said that Mubarak made a telephone call with Sharon, who ( Sharon) renewed his assertion to Mubarak to implement his unilateral plan to withdraw from Gaza.

The statement stressed the identical view points of officials concerning the need to halt violence in the Palestinian territories in order to find out " appropriate conditions to give an impetus forward for the peace process " between the Palestinians and the Israelis.