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Arab summit work paper leaked

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The Algerian daily al-Youm issued on Wednesday said that a Syrian- Lebanese work paper was leaked for several Arab leaderships. The paper contains proposals that will be submitted to the Arab summit due to be held on Saturday in Cairo.

The paper issued the details of the document which it had received from an Arab diplomatic source who refused to be identified. The document speaks about measures proposed by Syria and Lebanon to the Arab states who are linked with diplomatic relations with Israel at the level of ambassadors like " Egypt, Jordan and Mauritania " to reduce the level of its diplomatic representation from the level of an ambassador to a charge d'affairs.

The document also proposes that the Arab states which have only trade representation like " Tunisia, Qatar and Morocco" " definite closure of the Israeli offices and cutting relations with Israel.

The diplomatic source said that the Syrian- Lebanese document might be a sort of " feeling the impulse " before the " Sharm esh Sheikh" summit to know the real reasons which make Egypt and Jordan withdraw the initiative from the forthcoming Arab summit with this persistent and determination.

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