AMMAN, June 19 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Jordan and Egypt rejected Wednesday, June 19, any plan for a "provisional" Palestinian state, as U.S. President George W. Bush prepared to unveil a new Middle East plan which they hoped would be balanced.

The foreign ministers of Jordan and Egypt, Washington's top Arab allies and the only two Arab countries to have peace treaties with Israel, outlined their views as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak concluded two hours of talks in Amman with Jordan's King Abdullah II and headed to Syria, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

Mubarak and Abdullah "expressed hope that the initiative that President Bush will unveil in the next few days will be balanced and in harmony with international resolutions on the Palestinian cause," a court official said.

Any peace initiative "must rest on U.N. Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 and lead to the creation of a viable Palestinian state", the official said.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher and his Egyptian counterpart Ahmad Maher were even more specific as to what Cairo and Amman expect of Bush.

"We cannot understand how we can set up a provisional state. Any Palestinian state must have full sovereignty over Palestinian territory," Moasher told a news conference.

"Only Israeli occupation [of Arab land] must be provisional," Maher said.

Bush is due to unveil a new peace initiative for the Middle East this week and aides have said he may back a "provisional" Palestinian state and call an international conference to discuss the matter, AFP said.

Bush's initiative "must be balanced and speak explicitly of the need to move forward to a definitive settlement rather than speak of interim solutions," Moasher said.

"The end of Israeli occupation and the establishment of a Palestinian state must take place within a specific timetable for a definitive settlement," he said.

Maher also insisted on a U.S. blueprint that "contains a specific timetable" for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement and said several Arab leaders have informed the United States of this wish in recent weeks.

"Arab leaders have contacted the United States to ensure that the position that will be unveiled by their president on the Middle East will be moderate, balanced ... and establish a Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem," Maher said.

The Egyptian official also warned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon against any widespread retaliation to Tuesday's Palestinian operation that killed 19 Israelis in occupied Jerusalem, plus the bomber.

"Mr. Sharon is used to threaten all his neighbors and everybody. I think he must understand that the only way to ensure the security of the Israeli people is through a political process that leads to the implementation of the policy of two states living side by side," Maher said.

Meanwhile, Mubarak arrived in Damascus Wednesday and went straight into talks on the Middle East situation with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, state news agency SANA reported.

Speaking in the Jordanian capital, Maher expressed his country's full support for Syria against any "threatened strike" from Israel.

"We are in solidarity with Syria against any threat of a strike" against that country, he told reporters.

Last week Israel accused Syria of inciting terrorism and showing contempt for international law.

Maher said Mubarak would discuss with Assad "the situation within the framework of the efforts deployed by Egypt to put an end to the Israeli threats and to relaunch the [Middle East] peace process".

Syria's official daily Tishrin hoped Wednesday that Bush's plan would be based on the "restitution of Arab rights and lands and ending the Israeli occupation".