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| Abbas arrives in Libya for Arab League summit |
| 2010-03-27 |
| [Ma'an] President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Serit, Libya, on Friday ahead of the Arab League summit beginning the following day. Abbas was received at the Serit International Airport by senior Libyan officials, among them Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi Mahmoud, Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, and Secretary-General of the Arab League Amer Moussa, the Palestinian Authority news agency WAFA reported. The Palestinian president was also welcomed by PA Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyadh Al-Maliki, and Palestinian Ambassador to Libya, Atef Auda. Accompanying Abbas for the summit include PLO Chief Negotiator Saeb Ereket, PLO Executive Committee member, Saleh Ra'fat, presidential spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh and diplomatic advisor Majdi Al-Khalidi. Moussa said Wednesday that withdrawing the Arab Peace Initiative, which attempts to normalize relations with Israel, in return for the creation of a Palestinian state, is on the summit's agenda, following the Israeli government's continued building policy on occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem. |
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