Egypt warns against Juadizing Jerusalem's antiquities
Egypt-Palestine, Politics, 8/2/2001

Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni called for holding an emergency meeting by the UNESCO world heritage committee to discuss Israeli measures aiming at Juadizing Islamic heritage of the Palestinian people.

Gaballah Ali Gaballah, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that there would be a call for holding a meeting on the level of the Arab countries mainly Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and Palestine to discuss stances according to directives of the recent meeting of heads of Arab antiquities authorities in the Arab League last April.

He added that the meeting would focus on extending a memo in the name of Arab group on the level of UNESCO permanent representative to adopt a serious stance against Israeli practices aiming at violating Islamic sanctities.

The Minister decided to form a follow-up committee under Gaballah to probe the Israeli aggression on the Islamic monuments.

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