Saudi Shoura council head refuses Israeli meeting

The chairman of the Saudi Shoura council Sheikh Saleh Bin Abdullah Bin Hameed has refused the proposal made by the chairman of the Israeli Knesset to meet together on the sideline of deliberations of the International Parliamentary Union, currently held in Marrakesh to discuss the Saudi initiative.

The Egyptian daily al-Ahram quoted the Saudi official as saying that he had refused this meeting in its being a normalization of relations before achieving the full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories.