Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit Sunday on Israel's "aggressive war on Lebanon", the official SANA news agency reported.

The two sides discussed "the underway communications for a ceasefire", SANA said, without giving further details.

An informed source told Xinhua that Abul Gheit presented Assad a letter from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, which was concerned of the dangerous situation in Lebanon, ways to ease the crisis through immediate ceasefire, and dialogue between Israel and Lebanon without any military threat.

The deployment of an international force at Lebanese borders were also discussed, the source said.

This is Abul Gheit's second visit to Damascus during the Israel- Lebanon conflict. He was here on July 12 when the conflict erupted after Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah abducted two Israeli soldiers and killed eight in a cross-border attack.

About 750 Lebanese, most of them civilians, and over 50 Israeli have been killed in the 19 days of fights, according to media count.

Syria, which supports Hezbollah, has called for a ceasefire and rejected a proposal to deploy an international force on its borders with Lebanon.

"Those who are suggesting spreading an international force on the Lebanese-Syrian borders forget the existing strong fraternal ties linking the two sisterly countries and peoples and that neither the Syrians nor the Lebanese would accept that," Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said on Saturday.

"The Syrians and Lebanese are one family that will accept no one to separate them," he added.

Source: Xinhua