Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Foreign Minister, and his Egyptian counterpart, Ahmad Abulghait reaffirmed here today the conformity of views of Saudi Arabia and Egypt on various Arab region developments. They made the remarks during their joint press conference following a meeting here today between Prince Saud and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. During the meeting, Prince Saud Al-Faisal handed a message from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to the president. During the press conference, Prince Saud Al-Faisal said that Arab Initiative is still there and ready to be implemented, and that he thinks it is capable of ending the conflict between the Palestinian and Israeli sides and in their interest. Al-Faisal described Arab Initiative as a whole package, therefore it cannot be changed, by any means, it is balanced and fully integrated, he said. Al-Faisal added that, however, there is no new development concerning it, up to now, and expressed hope to adopt it by all Middle East peace process concerned parties, before it is too late. Replying to a question whether he received approval of the Head of Political Bureau of Hamas, Khalid Mishaal, when he recently met him, on signing the Egyptian Paper to reconcile Palestinian factions, Al-Faisal said that they did not tackled this issue, in fact, during that meeting because the whole dossier of Palestinian reconciliation is in the hand of our Egyptian brothers, However, he explained that he has asked Mishaal to make clear the standpoint of Hamas on the Palestinian cause, and whether it considers it as an Arab cause or another side"s cause, and if it is working for unifying Palestinian factions to take the side of a particular state, why should it not work to unify the Palestinian factions to stand against Israel concerning the Palestinian cause. Prince Saud Alfaisal said that Mishaal has responded to this publicly asserting the Arab nature of the Hamas Movement and the Palestinian cause and this is what the Saudi side was seeking from meeting Khalid Mishaal. --More
