Arab foreign ministers discuss Euro- Mediterranean partnership meeting
A coordination meeting was held in Doha on Thursday evening. It included the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara ( chairman ) and the Arab foreign ministers, members at the Euro- Mediterranean partnership conference.
The meeting included the Egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa, the Lebanese foreign minister Mahmoud Hamoud, the Jordanian foreign minister Abdul Illah al-Khatib, the chairman of the PLO political department Farouk al-Qaddouni and the foreign ministers of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco and the director of the Islamic department at the people's secretariat at the Libyan foreign ministry.
The participants in the meeting exchanged consultations and coordination stances to come up with a united Arab stand towards convening Marseilles conference for the Euro- Mediterranean partnership in light of the bloody events currently taking place by the Israeli occupation forces against the palestinian people.
The ministers agreed to continue discussions in another meeting with the aim to coordinate stances.
On the sideline of the meetings of the ministerial council held in Doha, foreign minister al-Shara met with several Arab foreign ministers taking part in the meeting and discussed with them several basic issues debated on the meeting's agenda.
The Arab foreign ministers who are participating in the Euro- Mediterranean partnership conference agreed in the coordination meeting they held on Thursday under the chairmanship of al-Shara that he ( al-Shara) is to contact with the French foreign minister over the Arab participation in the conference.
It is scheduled that al-Shara will contact the French side to include an item on the agenda of the Euro- Mediterranean partnership conference due to be held in Marseilles, France on November 15 and 16 on developments and events in the occupied Palestinian territories and the Israeli practices against the unarmed Palestinian people.
In his capacity as the Arab coordinator for the partnership conference, al-Shara will prepare the Syrian work paper on the Arab position concerning developments in the occupied palestinian territories.
