Two Muslim peers are to meet with the Sudanese president to discuss jailed Liverpool teacher Gillian Gibbons, it was confirmed last night.

Presidential aide, Mahzoub Faidul said the meeting would take place at 10.30am today.

“The (Sudanese) president will meet the British delegation at 10:30 (on Monday morning) at the presidential palace,” he said.

“He will discuss the case and a possible pardon.”

Baroness Warsi and Lord Ahmed are lobbying for the early release of Mrs Gibbons, who was jailed for 15 days by a Sudanese court on Thursday for inciting Islam after allowing her class of seven-year-olds to name a teddy bear Mohammed.

They have held a number of meetings with Sudanese Government officials, including the foreign minister in the last two days, and earlier announced they were to delay their return to Britain to hold more talks tomorrow.

But they have not confirmed who those meetings will be with, or what will be discussed.

Speaking from Khartoum tonight, Baroness Warsi: “There are number of meetings scheduled for tomorrow, we are not prepared to say who they are with or what will be discussed.

“These are very delicate times and were are trying to be as responsible and restrained as possible.”

She added: “We would urge everyone to do the same.”

Baroness Warsi said earlier: “We had a number of very difficult meetings today, but I think we made quite a lot of progress in these meetings.

“As a result of those meetings, and a meeting with Gill today, we have some hope, and further meetings scheduled for tomorrow.

“We will now not be returning tomorrow morning.”

Baroness Warsi said there was no indication of how long they would now stay in Sudan.

She said that Mrs Gibbons was being kept up to date with the situation.

“We are keeping her informed and talking about her views and opinions on what she would like to do,” Baroness Warsi said.

“Clearly, we want to secure her early release and she wants to have her early release secured if that can be done.”

Baroness Warsi did not go into details about the content of today’s talks.

She said: “We needed to discuss matters with various individuals, there were very difficult issues we needed to deal with in these meetings.”

The teacher has released a statement saying she has been “well treated” during her incarceration.

Mrs Gibbons, 54, is currently being held at a secret location in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, amid fears for her safety. Thousands of protesters gathered on Friday to demand she face a harsher sentence. Since then, the the streets have remained quiet.

In the statement, which was passed to Channel 4 News through her legal team, Mrs Gibbons made it clear she was in good spirits - and even managed an attempt at humour.

She said: “I’m fine, I’m well, I’m very grateful to all the people working on my behalf. I know so many people out there have done so much.

“I know the Prime Minister has called my son, and I’m really grateful to everyone.

“I want people to know I’ve been well treated, and especially that I’m well fed. I’ve been given so many apples I feel I could set up my own stall.

“The guards are constantly asking if I have everything I need.

“The Sudanese people in general have been pleasant and very generous, and I’ve had nothing but good experiences during my four months here.

“I’m really sad to leave and if I could go back to work tomorrow then I would.”

The British Ambassador also visited Mrs Gibbons today, spending just over an hour with her, the Foreign Office said.

A Foreign Office spokesman said: “Mrs Gibbons has confirmed she is being treated well and is in a comfortable and secure environment. Mrs Gibbons’ welfare remains our priority and we will continue to provide full consular assistance for as long as Mrs Gibbons is detained.

“Government ministers and officials in London and Sudan are continuing to do everything they can to try to resolve this consular issue as quickly as possible through intense activity on a wide range of channels.”

He repeated that the visit of Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi was a valuable private initiative which complemented intense activity by ministers and officials.

Diplomatic efforts by the British Government to secure the teacher’s release are continuing.

The Foreign Secretary called the Sudanese foreign minister yesterday to reiterate his “very strong concern” at Mrs Gibbons’ continued detention, and also spoke to Mrs Gibbons’ son, John, 27, to reassure the family that he was doing “everything he can” to secure her release.

Speaking outside his Liverpool home yesterday morning, Mr Gibbons said: “He didn’t say much really, just to say they’re doing everything they can. He’s still trying.”

Mrs Gibbons, of Aigburth, Liverpool, has said she does not want her current situation to spark “resentment” towards Muslims.

The perceived leniency of Mrs Gibbons’ sentence has incensed Sudan’s hard-line Muslim clerics.

Massing in central Martyrs Square for an hour on Friday, the hordes burned pictures of Mrs Gibbons and chanted: “Shame, shame on the UK,” and “No tolerance: Execution,” and “kill her, kill her by firing squad”.