CAIRO, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema said Tuesday during a visit to Egypt that it is time “to think about a peace accord and not just a peace process.”
D’Alema talked to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria and then flew to Cairo for a meeting with Amr Moussa, head of the Arab League, the Italian news agency Ansa reported. He and Moussa also had a news conference.
The foreign minister was in the West Bank on Monday for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He is to visit Israel Wednesday.
An international summit on the Palestinian situation is set for November. D’Alema said that in the period before the summit diplomats should work to build agreement on how to create a Palestinian state.
He said that Washington’s agreement on the summit was a “great opportunity.”
