Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak discussed this month's proposed Arab summit meeting in a telephone conversation, the official SPA news agency reported Saturday.
In Friday evening's call, initiated by Mubarak, it said they discussed "the continuing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, following Israel's provocative actions in Jerusalem," a reference to the visit by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to Islam's third holiest site, Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque compound, on September 28.
The visit has been widely blamed for sparking a week of violence in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip and in the Arab area of northern Israel, in which 86 people have died, the overwhelming majority Arabs.
Arab League foreign ministers are to meet in Cairo on October 19 and 20 to prepare an Arab summit to be held on October 21 and 22.
A Saudi official told AFP Thursday that his country "supports holding an urgent summit concentrating on the situation in the Palestinian territories, but it is also favourable to an ordinary Arab summit to debate the circumstances of the Arab world." -- RIYADH (AFP)
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