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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar talked Monday over the phone with US President George W. Bush, with whom he analyzed the progress of the war on Iraq, Spanish official sources said.
The sources said Aznar also held a phone conversation with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, trying to learn his view on the Iraqi crisis five days after the beginning of the invasion by the United States and Great Britain.
Aznar had held a phone conversation with Bush a few hours before the war broke out, and the last one took place on Friday on his arrival in Madrid from the meeting of the European Council in Brussels.
Spain is one of the staunchest countries that support the United States, but it does not send troops to Iraq.
Egypt, joined by 20 Arab nations, condemned Monday the US-British action as "aggression" and called for an "immediate withdrawal" at the meeting of foreign ministers of the Arab League.
(Xinhua News Agency March 25, 2003)
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