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Arab govts to take Gaza back to Security Council
 Arab governments will take their case for an end to Israel's attacks on Gaza back to the U.N. Security Council, Arab foreign ministers said on WednesdayAfter a meeting of Arab ministers in Cairo, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the ministers strongly condemned what they called barbaric Israeli aggression. "(The ministers) direct an immediate demand that the U.N. Security Council convene and ask it to issue a resolution that binds Israel to immediately stop the aggression," he said, reading from the ministerial statement. Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo to seek a common position in response to Israel's military attacks, which have killed at least 25 percent of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. The U.N. Security Council called on Sunday for an immediate end to all violence in Gaza, where Israeli air raids have killed close to 400 people in the last five days. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said Arabs should take the Israeli attacks to the U.N. Security Council, even at a risk that a resolution would face a veto from one of the five permanent members of the council. Posted by: Fred 2009-01-01 |
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