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Egypt: No for the bilateral unless Israel withdraws from the Golan

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Jordan's prime Minister Abdul Raouf al-Rawabdeh has stressed that Syria and Lebanon are seeking peace and working for it in order to reach the ME peace process to its set objective.

During his meeting on Monday in Amman with a delegation representing the US defense faculty led by Admiral Macdonald, the Jordanian Premier added that the Syrians and the Lebanese are seeking peace and want to have assurances of having results from the peace negotiations and peace.

He asserted that the cause of Palestine is the " fundamental" issue in the region and that peace will not be consolidated unless a solution is maintained for its and the restoration of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to return back, to self determination and the establishment of their own independent state on their native soil of Palestine.

In Cairo, the Egyptian Foreign minister Amr Moussa told the US trade secretary William Daley Egypt's rejection to convening the economic conference on the Middle east and North Africa before realizing a tangible progress on the ME peace in which Israel abides by implementing all obligations and agreements signed on all tracks.

The Egyptian magazine " October" said in its MOnday issue that Moussa asserted during his meeting with the US official on Sunday on Egypt's rejection to talk about the multilateral negotiations before resuming talks on the Syrian and Lebanese track from where they broke off and Israel's withdrawal from the whole of the Golan, and South Lebanon according to UN resolutions and the land for peace formula.

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