Arab League permanent members meetings postponed

It was decided to postpone meetings of the permanent representatives of the Arab states, members to the Arab League (AL) until next Monday instead of today so as the AL Secretary General Amr Moussa, currently in New York be able to take part in the meeting, which will be dedicated to discuss the future of work mechanism of the Arab follow up committee that emerged from the recent Arab summit and to discuss the perspective prepared by the Arab League to this effect.

However, the Arab follow up committee will hold a meeting at the level of permanent representatives at the Arab League on February 18 and also another meeting at the ministerial level on March 8 in Cairo on the sideline of the meetings of the AL council. The meetings aim at preparing the periodical report which will be brought by the forthcoming Arab summit in Beirut in March 2002.

The committee includes Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan ( as a President), Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco and the secretary general of the Arab League.