31.   Mubarak met the king at Cairo airport before the two leaders went straight into talks at the presidential palace of Heliopolis northeast of Cairo, officials said.

32.   Pelletreau first visited Jordan last Thursday and met the king.

33.   Reports from Washington said that US envoy Robert Pelletreau tried to persuade Jordan to cut off ties with Baghdad when he met the king on Thursday.

34.   The party also meets the king Tuesday.