JERUSALEM, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Israel will let vetted Palestinian policemen go to Egypt for training and the Egyptians will deploy 700 soldiers along the their border with the Gaza Strip.
The agreement was reached, Wednesday, at a meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Egyptian Chief of Intelligence Omar Suleiman.
An aide to Mofaz told United Press International Israel would let Egyptian policemen go to Egypt for training "providing they are not involved in terror."
The Israeli Shabak security agency will check their names, the aide said.
Another agreement provides that 700 soldiers be deployed along the Philadelphi Route, the Israeli wedge between Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad who heads the Defense Ministry's Political-Defense Directorate will go to Egypt to finalize details, the aide said.
The two agreed, also, to continue searches for soldiers missing from previous wars and to cooperate in combating terror and preventing smuggling.
Earlier Wednesday Prime Minister Ariel Sharon apologized for last month's killing of three Egyptian policemen who patrolled the border. Sharon promised to hand over the findings of a military investigation that is now underway.
