The Arab League and the African Summit

The secretary general of the Arab League (AL) Ismat Abdul Miguid said that meetings of the African summit to be held today in Sirte, Libya aims at founding an African federation and is an occasion to discuss means of developing Afro-Arab cooperation relations.

In statements he made in Cairo on Wednesday before he left for Libya to take part in these meetings, the AL chief said that the AL has taken several decisions in the past to develop Afro-Arab cooperation relations in various fields. he expressed his support for the Libyan measures aiming at developing such a co-operation.