CAIRO, Oct. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Saturday called Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to inquire after his health conditions and wished him a speedy recovery, the official MENA news agency reported.

    Arafat is undergoing a battery of medical tests in a French military hospital for what one of his doctors called a life-threatening blood disorder.

    The 75-year-old Palestinian leader, widely seen as a living symbol of the Palestinian struggle for statehood, has been sick for the past two weeks and blood tests have revealed that he has a low platelet count.

    Accompanied by his wife and a team of medics and advisors, Arafat was airlifted to Jordan from his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah early on Friday. He was then flown to Paris from the Jordanian capital Amman.

    There were speculations that the ailing Palestinian leader was suffering from leukemia.

    But Palestinian envoy to France Leila Shahid said on Saturday that doctors have temporarily ruled out the possibility of leukemia in Arafat's case.

    Shahid said in a statement that "We can say his general condition between yesterday and today ... is much better both physically and psychologically," and "The doctors exclude, already from what he has done in terms of exams, any possibility of leukemia." Enditem