Baghdad, July 10, SPA -- President Jalal Talabani has called for a meeting of Arab interior ministers to devise aunified position against terrorism, a statement saidSunday. Talabani made the proposal Saturday night in a phone callto Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the statement quotedKamran Qaradaghi, Talabani's office manager, as saying.Mubarak supported the idea, it added. Such a meeting could discuss effective ways to confrontterrorism, a problem facing most countries in the region,Qaradaghi said. Talabani also offered his condolences for the reporteddeath of Egypt's top envoy to Iraq, Ihab al-Sherif, sayinghe was a victim of "a terrible criminal act," thestatement said. A report of the Associated Press said the Iraqi president also condemned the deadly London bombings in a message of condolences he sent to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In his message, the statement said Talabani called terrorism "an internationalplague."--SPA1133 Local Time 0833 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/275783