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Emergency meeting for Arab FMs on improving the Arab League
The assistant secretary general of the Arab league Nour Eddine Hasshad announced on Sunday that the Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo in February 2004 to discuss the file of developing the Arab League.
| "It's an emergency! Quick! Form a committee!" |
Hasshad told journalists that the AL general secretariat handed over "since days the Arab League a complete file on the development of the AL, and that the Arab League will by its turn send final answers by the end of January 2004 to discuss it in the emergency meeting." Chairman of the office of the AL secretary general, Hesham Youssef, said that the AL general secretariat is making consultations with the member states to convene an emergency meeting for the Arab foreign ministers in order to discuss ideas and special proposals to develop the AL in February 2004 following Eid al-Adha vacation. He explained that this meeting "will be held in implementation of the decision of the recent Arab summit which was held in Sharm al Sheikh in March. It provides for that the AL ministerial council to convene an emergency meeting to be dedicated to discuss proposals for boosting the AL, on which the AL chief Amr Moussa will submit a report to the next Arab summit due in Tunisia in March, 2004."
| None of that meant anything to me. I think they just want to go back to Sharm el-Sheikh. |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2004-01-01 |
