Report: Intensive Arab contacts expected for reviving call for Arab summit

The Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa said on Wednesday that Syrian sources expected contacts to be intensified among the Arab capitals in the coming days in order to revive the call for convening an Arab summit.

The paper quoted these sources, which it described as "well-informed," as saying that it is more probable that the contacts will result in a meeting soon between Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to study the results of the visit of Israeli Premier Ehud Barak to Washington.

A Syrian senior source told al-Anbaa that the vagueness which prevailed statements made by Barak and the stances he proclaimed during his visit to Washington could not cover the positive signals released by Washington in stressing the existence of a real chance to resume negotiations from the point where they broke off.