CAIRO, Egypt, September 09 , SPA --Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak saidSunday that without proper preparations or a clear agenda,the upcoming U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference willbe a failure, echoing doubts of other regional leaders, according to AP. U.S. President George W. Bush called for the conference inJuly to re-energize the stalled peace process and tackleoutstanding issues between Israelis and Palestinians, butthe specific agenda remains uncertain. «Until now, I personally, see that there is no clearagenda, and I don't even know if it will be a conference ora one-day meeting as some circles recently talked about,»Mubarak told reporters in response to a question about theconference, which is tentatively scheduled for November. «The thing that I most fear is that the lack ofacceptable preparations will lead to no results,» Mubaraksaid while touring industrial projects in the southernEgyptian town of Sohag. Mubarak's comments resemble those made by Arab foreignministers who met in the Egyptian capital of Cairo onWednesday to develop a unified stand toward the conference. They demanded that the meeting work toward a finalsettlement between Israel and the Palestinians rather thansimply be a diplomatic show. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been meetingregularly with Israeli officials for several months aboutways to revive the peace process. So far, there have beenfew concrete results, with Israel preferring to focus ongeneral outlines and the Palestinians pressing for detailedtalks on the main issues. On Tuesday, Mubarak, who met separately with King AbdullahII of Jordan, Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair andItalian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, warned that theconference should not be another lost chance similar toprevious meetings. Mubarak also warned Tuesday that if the conference failedto produce a breakthrough, the negative repercussions wouldaffect the whole area, increase feelings of frustration andstrengthen extremism. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected inthe Middle East later this month to try to get the sides toagree on an outline for a future peace agreement ahead ofthe U.S.-sponsored conference.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/481410