'Arab countries don't fit under one blanket'

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March 05 2004 at 01:00PM

Rome - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has warned the United States against imposing a ready-made solution on the entire Middle East and said the Arab-Israeli conflict should not be sidelined.

Mubarak, one of Washington's closest Arabian allies, said in a newspaper interview on Friday he would press US President George Bush about his Greater Middle East Initiative when he meets him next month.

"I don't know, but I sense something strange in the air," Mubarak was quoted as saying by La Repubblica daily when talking about the US initiative.

"How can you impose one ready-made solution on a limitless area that goes from Mauritania to Pakistan?" he said.

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