Top Palestinian security official in Egypt for talks

CAIRO: The Palestinian government s advisor for national security arrived in Cairo on Thursday in the wake of a US official s announcement that Israelis and Palestinians would meet there for security talks. Egypt s official Mena news agency said Mohammed Dahlan had arrived in the Egyptian capital for talks with officials in Egypt about the results of the Arab League summit in Riyadh and its decision to relaunch the long dormant Arab peace initiative. On Tuesday, a US official accompanying Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice back from her trip to the region said that Israeli and Palestinian officials, together with US and Egyptian representatives, would meet in two days time in Cairo to discuss security issues. A first meeting of the quadrilateral security committee was organized following Rice s previous trip to the region in February to develop a security plan for forces loyal to the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.