Hot agenda for the Arab foreign ministers
Regional, Politics, 9/5/1998

Permanent representatives of the Arab League will hold next Sunday a consultation meeting at AL headquarters, chaired by the AL Secretary-General Esmat Abdul Meguid.

The participants in the meeting will hold consultations on the draft agenda of the AL council 110th session to be held on the level of foreign ministers, chaired by Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. AL general secretariat sources said that the permanent representatives will discuss several debated issues among the meeting's 37 items.

Among these are issues pertaining to joint Arab work matters in political, economic, financial and social fields, foremost being are the Middle East peace process, the cause of Palestine, the Golan, and south Lebanon, Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Comoros as well as the consequences of the Israeli nuclear weapons on Arab national security.

The AL circulated the additional agenda of its council's 110th session. The additional agenda includes urgent issues certain AL members asked to be submitted to the meeting's agenda. Sudan, Iraq and Libya will ask the Arab foreign ministers in their meeting on September 16 to take a resolution on the 3 topics placed on the meetings' schedule of the Arab League's council on the level of the foreign ministers.

The Sudanese note referred to a foreign conspiracy to which Sudan is exposed, while the Iraqi note proposed to study the Israeli space (spy satellite) activities and their adverse consequences on Arab national security.

Libya emphasized the importance of persuading countries not to shelter terrorist elements and to deliver the terrorists residing in Britain. Libya wants to talk to an British intelligence officer who stated recently that Britain made an attempt to assassinate President Gaddafi.

The Arab League's general trusteeship confirmed placing the three topics on the Arab League ministers' agenda, which comprises 37 items, among which are permanent items that relate to the Israeli - Arab conflict, the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, the Golan Heights and the three occupied islands in the Gulf, whose sovereignty is disputed between the United Arab Emirates and Iran.

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