The Arab League announces that its secretary general, Amr Moussa, has proposed a new issue on the agenda the 135th meeting of the League’s council today, Monday, at its headquarters in Cairo: namely, developments in the Arab region and escalating protests in a number of Arab states, as well as the outcome of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.
The items placed on agenda and resolutions passed today will be taken to the larger meeting of the Arab Foreign Ministers’ Council, which will meet 2-3 March.
The deputy secretary general, Ambassador Ahmed Bin Hala, told reporters on Sunday that discussions will include the need to speed up the processes of reform, modernisation and development in Arab society and respond to the demands of the Arab people with regards to freedom, democracy and freedom of expression.
Other important discussions are the internal Palestinian power struggle and the reactivating the Arab peace initiative, as well as solidarity with Lebanon; Arab water security; Israel’s pilfering of Arab water and supporting the budget of the Palestinian Authority.
They will also draft the agenda in preparation for the next Arab summit in Baghdad and discuss a report on the Arab Peace and Security Council.
More long-standing topics include the Arab-Israeli conflict; Israeli measures in Jerusalem; the situation in Golan; the threat of Israel’s arsenal against Arab national security, developing peaceful uses for nuclear energy in Arab countries, combating international terrorism, a peaceful resolution of the Djibouti-Eritrea conflict, the situation in the Comoros Islands, Somalia, and promoting peace and development in Sudan.
Arab League representatives will also continue to debate conditions in Iraq, Iranian occupation of the Emirate Islands and the rejection of US unilateral ostracism of Syria.
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