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Arab Foreign Ministers Meet in Cairo Next March

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The Arab foreign ministers council will hold a meeting on March 12 to review the agenda of the Arab summit that will be hosted by Jordan late march. The 38th ministerial meeting will be held under the chairmanship of the Qatari foreign minister Sheikh Hamad Ben Jasem Al-Thani.

Arab league secretary general Esmat Abdul Majid said the agenda was distributed to the Arab ministers for a review ahead of adopting a decision on distributing another agenda of emergency matters.

The meeting will discuss the prospective Arab summit's agenda and a report of the Arab league's secretary general on the league's activities. Other permanent articles that will be discussed by the meeting will be the issue of Palestine, the Israeli occupation of Arab lands and following up the Palestinian intifada. The meeting will also tackle Jewish settlements in Palestine, the occupied Syrian Golan heights, Iran's occupation of the United Arab Emirates islands, the situation in Somalia and the Comoros islands and the lifting of international sanctions on Libya by the security council.

He added the agenda will include an article over the US and British arbitrary measures and threats against Libya over what's called the Lockerbie case.\

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