CAIRO -- Cairo is sending envoys to Israel and the Palestinian territories to pull the region out of a crisis caused by Israeli policies, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said Saturday.

The visit "comes in the light of attempts to emerge from the crisis in the region caused by Israeli policies," Maher told reporters without naming the delegates.

Israeli public radio reported earlier in the day that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and defense minister Binyamin ben Eliezer will host talks in Bait-ul-Moqaddas Sunday with delegates sent by President Hosni Mubarak.

The Egyptian officials, Mubarak's political advisor Osama al-Baz and Intelligence Chief General Omar Soleiman, were also to meet Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah, it added.

Mubarak said on Monday that he would send Baz and Soleiman, who have already traveled to Israel in the last few months, on a mission to ease tension resulting from 21 months of Palestinian-Israeli violence.

"I will soon send a peace envoy to Israel and another to the Palestinian Authority because the situation cannot go on the way it is, and I fear that future complications could lead the whole region to chaos," he told AFP.