Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa call in Cairo Friday for holding an international peace conference on the Palestine issue, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported. Moussa voiced the call in a meeting with European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who arrived in Cairo Thursday for a two-day visit to Egypt, ending a four-leg tour that also took her to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.
During the talks, the AL chief highlighted the importance of holding an international peace conference on the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab lands, MENA said.
This must be done in accordance with a pre-set timetable, Moussa was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, AL spokesman Alaa Roshdi noted after the Moussa- Waldner meeting that the European commissioner briefed the AL chief on the outcome of her talks in the region.
The two sides discussed Palestinian developments, following the Mecca agreement on formation of a national unity government between the two rival mainstream movements of Hamas and Fatah, Roshdi said, adding that Moussa pressed for lifting the unjust siege imposed on the Palestinian people once a national unity government was formed.
The talks also focused the files of Iraq, Darfur and Somalia as well as the Middle East nuclear dossier.