Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call from German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday where they discussed the recent Middle East peace plan announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, said the Egyptian presidency.

Sisi and Merkel exchanged views on the latest developments of the Palestinian cause, the Zionist-Palestinian conflict and the Middle East peace process, Egyptian Presidency spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement.
The two leaders "agreed on the importance of opening channels for dialogue to resume negotiations with U.S. sponsorship and presenting the visions of the Palestinian and Zionist sides," Rady added.
They urged for an agreement that would "achieve a comprehensive and just peace in accordance with the decisions of international legitimacy, return to the Palestinian people all their legitimate rights and support stability and security in the Middle East."
The Egyptian-German talks came a day after Trump, with Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his side, announced "a new dawn" via a U.S. plan to end the Zionist-Palestinian conflict.
The U.S. peace plan includes Jerusalem as Israel's "undivided" capital while claiming that the Palestinians' capital will include areas of East Jerusalem.
On Tuesday, Egypt called on the Palestinians and Zionists to consider the U.S. plan carefully and thoroughly and to open channels for dialogue under U.S. auspices.
The U.S. peace plan was strongly rejected by the Palestinians, which President Mahmoud Abbas described as a "conspiracy," saying that "Jerusalem is not for sale" and Trump's deal "will not pass."
The decades-long conflict erupted following the Zionist occupation of Palestinian territories and the Western-backed creation of Israel in 1948.
The United States, Israel's main backer, officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital in late 2017 and relocated the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the holy city later in May 2018.
The Palestinians seek to establish an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital in light of the UN-proposed two-state solution based on the pre-1967 war borders.