Moussa and al-Qaddafi statements on Arab summit draft report
Regional, Politics, 10/19/2000

Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa said that what was debated by the Libyan President Muammar al-Qaddafi in al-Jazira TV on Tuesday evening in a program called al-Itijah al-Muakis on the final statement of the coming Arab summit is a mere draft and is not considered final.

Moussa described what was mentioned by al-Qaddafi as a violation to norms. Al-Qaddafi outlined to Qatari TV about the main headlines of the final statement of the Arab summit. Decisions which show a " moderate Arab" stand towards the worst crisis the Middle East region has been witnessing since years. In an unprecedented step that never been made by any Arab leader, he exposed the main decisions to be announced by the Arab leaders in their summit to be hosted in Cairo on October 21 and 22.

Moussa told journalists in Cairo on Wednesday that " this draft, according to diplomatic traditions and traditions of elite traditions, supposed to be a draft for study to enable every state to express its position, to add to subtract or to improve it."

Moussa asserted that this draft is " a preliminary paper" and could not be considered final and should not be disclosed, according to enacted norms all over the world."

Moussa said that the final statement draft of the Arab summit will be subject to re-formulation and discussions by the Arab foreign ministers.

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