The Arab League (AL) foreign ministerial council session is
scheduled to open in Cairo on Sunday to discuss a number of draft
resolutions covering issues related to developments in the Middle
East, a senior AL official said on Friday.
In a statement, Mohamed Sobeih, the AL Assistant Secretary
General for Palestinian and Occupied Arab Territories Affairs, said
the AL Council session at the permanent delegates level on Thursday
adopted nine draft resolutions to cover several issues, including
Jerusalem, the refugees, the Israeli separation wall, financial aid
to the Palestinian Authority and settlements, as well as situation
in the Israeli-held Syrian Golan Heights and southern Lebanon.
Arab and Islamic groups have teamed up on the issue of saving
Jerusalem in light of the fierce Israeli onslaught on al-Aqsa
Mosque and the continuing siege slammed on the Palestinian
people,according to Sobeih.
He underlined the importance of resolutions to be adopted by the
upcoming Arab summit in Riyadh in late March, in terms of
crystallizing a unified Arab stand on a definitive timetable for
resuming the Mideast peace process.
The AL Council session at the permanent delegates level also
adopted draft resolutions on forming the Arab peace and security
council agenda and developing Arab nuclear capabilities for
peaceful uses till 2020 referred to the coming Arab foreign
ministerial council meeting.
The Arab Foreign Ministerial Council will also probe Arab ties
with Europe, China, Turkey and Latin America and call for
activating the Arab presence in Africa.
AL Secretary General Amr Moussa will attend the meeting to be
held under Tunisian Foreign Affairs Minister Abdelwaheb
Abdallah.
(Xinhua News Agency March 3, 2007)
