OSLO.'Dec 11: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and fellow Npbel peace laureate Yasser Arafat of the PLO agreed at a meeting here, early today to resume autonomy talks In Cairo on Wednesday ahead of another session between the two leaders, reports AFP.

With the autonomy process deadlocked on the Issue of Palestinian elections and an Israeli army redeployment on the West Bank. Uri Savir. Director General of Israel's Foreign Ministry, toldjournaj-Ists the Cairo negotiations through until Thursday would be "very intensive.''

The talks were to pave the way for another Rabin-Arafat meeting, said top PLO autonomy negotiator Nabil Shaath, who was to lead the Cairo delegations together with Savir. But there was no fixed date for the next top level encounter.