Al-Assad, Mubarak discuss the situation in Iraq, Palestinian elections

The Syrian President Bashar al-Assad yesterday made a telephone call with the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and discussed with him the situation in Iraq and the Palestinian Presidential elections.

The Egyptian Middle East News Agency said that the discussions dealt with the situation in the Palestinian territories and the need of supporting the Palestinian leadership in order to carry out presidential elections in the set date and relaunching peace negotiations.

MENA added that the two Syrian and Egyptian Presidents also discussed the development of conditions in Iraq and the importance of convening the international conference on Iraq due on November 22 and 23 in Sharm Esh-Sheikh in Egypt, so as to contribute to ending as soon as possible the acts of violence and preserving the sovereignty of the Iraqi lands, its unity and to allow the Iraqi people live in peace.