Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak here Thursday met visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to discuss means of reviving the stalled Mideast peace process.

During the meeting at the presidential palace in Heliopolis, Mubarak and Livni talked about means of reviving the Mideast peace process and Israel's stand as regards the Arab peace initiative reactivated in late March by Arab leaders, said Egypt's official MENA news agency.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit and Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Shalom Cohen attended the meeting.

Livni arrived here earlier in the day on a brief visit to Egypt.

After her talks with Mubarak, Livni is also scheduled to hold talks with her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts, Ahmed Abul Gheit and Abdul Ilah al-Khatib, as the two Arab countries having ties with Israel are exerting efforts to revive the stalled Mideast peace process.

The Arab Peace Initiative, first approved by the Arab League in its 2002 Beirut summit, calls for Israel's pullout from Arab land occupied in the 1967 Middle East War and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in return for the normalization of ties with Arab states.

Israel had rejected the initiative after it was first launched in 2002, but the Jewish state has recently said it could provide a basis for talks though there are amendments to the refugee issue.

At a meeting of 13 foreign ministers of a newly-formed Arab peace initiative committee on April 18 in Cairo, Egypt and Jordan was designated as the only members of an Arab committee to contact Israel on activating the initiative.

Source: Xinhua