CAIRO: Egypt has told several Arab nations that it is refusing to allow Hamas leader Khalid Meshaal to travel to Egypt, until the Islamic group signs the Egyptian proposal for reconciliation with Fatah, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday. It said Hamas has asked Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to work in coordination in order to improve its relations with Cairo. Egypt fought back, saying that it has no objection to receiving a delegation from Hamas to sign the Egyptian document “as it is and without amendments”, Al Jareeda reported. On Sunday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that he would not meet Meshaal unless Hamas signed the Egypt-brokered reconciliation offer. The Egyptian foreign ministry has said that it would look into the matter, but “Meshaal has not made a formal request to come to Egypt to participate in any negotiations.” This report comes amid Kuwaiti efforts to hold a reconciliation summit between Meshaal and Abbas. “We expect to be able to hold a reconciliation meeting shortly between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the head of Hamas’ politburo Khalid Meshaal on the basis of the paper agreed upon in Cairo,” Kuwait's Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammad Al Sabah said on Sunday in statements carried in international press. Both Abbas and Meshaal have recently visited Kuwait and met its Emir, Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah. A local Egyptian newspaper on Sunday quoted an unnamed Syrian diplomat, who ruled out a meeting “in the near future” despite the Kuwaiti statement. BM