CAIRO - The spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, Suleiman Awad, denied categorically on Sunday evening a press report aired by Al-Jazeera TV that President Hosni Mubarak had chaired a meeting of the Supreme Defence Council against the backdrop of events in Tunisia calling it "completely false and lacks the minimum standards of professionalism". Suleiman Awad stressed that such reports are fabrication. He added that President Mubarak is now in Sharm el-Sheikh, about 550km north-east of Cairo, to receive Arab leaders who are to attend the 2nd Arab Economic Summit which opens on Wednesday. The spokesman denied categorically any intention from the Egyptian government to raise fuel and commodity prices, or increase taxes or impose any new taxes. Awad concluded that the only correct thing in the report of "Al Jazeera" is its indication to the permanent bias of President Mubarak to the poor and ordinary Egyptians, and his opposition to any action that would aggravate the burdens on the Egyptian citizens.