Mubarak receives a telephone call from Yeltsin

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Russian President Boris Yeltsin discussed the situation in the Middle East and the crisis facing the Middle East peace process. This was in a telephone call President Mubarak received on Friday from his Russian counterpart.

The two Presidents underlined the importance of exerting all international and regional efforts to salvage the peace process in the course of honoring the terms of reference approved by the international community and its institutions, providing for restoring the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and the restoration of occupied Arab lands.

Moreover, a statement issued by the Kremlin said that President Yeltsin supports the Egyptian proposal to announce the Middle East a zone free from nuclear weapons.

Meanwhile, according to a statement made by the spokeswoman for the French Foreign ministry, the stalemated Middle East peace process will be at the top of the agenda of meetings of the European Union's foreign ministers in Luxembourg by the end of this month