CAIRO, April 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Tuesday with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom on regional developments and the Mideast peace process, a day after a US-Israeli summit, the official MENA news agency reported.

    The 90-minute talks tackled the current Palestinian-Israeli situation, the implementation of the roadmap peace plan and a planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, MENA said.

    Shalom briefed Mubarak on the outcome of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's talks with US President George W. Bush on Monday in Crawford, Texas.

    Sharon won renewed support for his plan to pull out Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank.
    However, Bush told Sharon that any further settlement construction would violate the roadmap peace plan.

    Shalom arrived here earlier in the day for a short visit.

    In February, Mubarak and Sharon met in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh during a Middle East peace summit.

    Egypt's newly appointed ambassador to Israel assumed his post in Tel Aviv in mid-March after a four-year vacancy in protest of Israel's excessive use of force against the Palestinians.

    Israel has sought Egypt's help to provide security along the border with the Palestinian territory following the withdrawal due in July.

    Egypt, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, has played a key mediating role in solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Enditem