Putin and Yasser Arafat talked to Ekhud Barak on telephone

Negotiations of RF President Vladimir Putin and Palestine leader Yasser Arafat finished in Kremlin. In the course of the negotiations Putin had a telephone conversation with Israeli PM Ekhud Barak. Later Yasser Arafat carried on talks with Ekhud Barak straight from the private office of Putin. According to the Kremlin press-service, the problems of Near-Eastern adjustment were discussed.