Arab follow up committee holds a meeting in Cairo
Regional, Politics, 7/18/2001

A meeting was held on Tuesday in Cairo for several Arab foreign ministers, members in the Arab follow up and move committee formed by the Arab Cairo summit conference.

The meeting included the foreign minister of Syria Farouk al-Shara, Lebanon's foreign minister Mahmoud Hammoud, the Yemeni foreign minister Abu Baker al-Qaroubi; the secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa, the Palestinian official in charge of planning at the Palestinian authority Nabil Shaath and the Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Oreikat.

The participants in the meeting discussed decisions and steps to be taken by the Arab states to support the Palestinian Intifada, Syria and Lebanon in confrontation of the Israeli aggressions and to contain Israel politically and economically in order to force it to halt its aggressions against the Palestinian people and abide by international legitimacy resolutions.

Earlier in the day, the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara arrived in Cairo to take part in the emergency meeting of the Arab follow up committee of the Arab Cairo summit in support of the Intifada.

During its two day meeting, the committee will discuss the deteriorated conditions in the occupied Arab territories as a result of the escalated Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people and the provocation and threats against Syria and Lebanon.

The Arab follow up committee is composed of the foreign ministers of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco, Bahrain and the AL secretary general.

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