Mubarak confers with Arafat

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat met in Cairo on Tuesday and held a bilateral session of talks in which they discussed the latest developments concerning the Middle East peace process and obstacles impeding it.

The bilateral talks were followed by a plenary session attended on the Egyptian side by Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and the Egyptian president's advisor for political affairs Osama el-Baz. On the Palestinian side the meeting was attended by Nabil Shaath, Saeb Erekat, Zuhdi al-Qudwa and Nabil Abu Rudinah. Arafat arrived in Cairo earlier in the day in a short visit to Cairo.