Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Tuesday the time is not ripe for an international Middle East peace conference.
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"No, not at the present time," Mubarak told reporters when asked whether now that the gulf war has ended it was time to convene such a conference to settle the 43-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict.Mubarak said confidence-building measures between Israel and its Arab neighbors were needed first in addition to sufficient preparation for such a conference.