Hosni Mubarak
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Vague peace conference results may spark regional violence - Mubarak
Egyptian president says upcoming peace talks in Washington must produce feasible decisions that 'will not lead to eruption of violence'
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday that the upcoming Mideast peace conference in Washington must have a clear agenda and result in feasible decisions that would "not lead to an eruption of violence in the region".
"If they (conference participants) will not have an agenda – I fear the result will be dangerous for everyone," Mubarak told reporters.
The Egyptian president also expressed his concern over the wave of political assassinations in Lebanon, saying "Lebanon was a peaceful country, and people from all the Arab countries used to visit it. These assassinations must stop."
Mubarak said he believed Lebanon would succeed in electing a new president that would stabilize the situation there.
"We have enough problems in Palestine, Darfur, Iraq and Somalia," he said.
Earlier on Sunday Lebanon's top Shiite Muslim cleric expressed fears that the peace conference, scheduled for November, would serve as a cover for renewed aggression by the US and Israel.
"We fear that the American peace conference that Bush has called for in the fall would be a cover for a new American-Israeli aggression in the region and would constitute the basis for another military adventure," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said.
Fadlallah, the top religious authority for Lebanon's 1.2 million Shiites, warned Arab countries against "directly or indirectly joining this game".
