Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres held unscheduled talks with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in Cairo. After meeting for more than an hour, Peres said he had told Arafat that Israel was waiting for seven days of complete calm before starting peace moves.
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