(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn - Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met Wednesday in Geneva with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, and asked him to encourage PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to enter into negotiations with Israel without preconditions. Mubarak and Shalom discussed efforts to attain a cease-fire with militant Palestinian groups and also the strengthening of relations between Egypt and Israel. Shalom asked Mubarak to return his country's ambassador to Israel. Mubarak responded that the ambassador will be reinstated "at the right moment." Shalom then traveled to Rome for a conference of donor states to the PA. There he met four PA ministers and told them Israel has reached a strategic decision to return to the negotiation table.
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