Aznar, Solana will attend the Arab summit
The Spanish government on Tuesday announced that its prime minister Jose Maria Aznar will attend the current Arab summit on the ground that his country is the current President of the European Union and that he ( Aznar) will deliver a speech at the summit's inauguration session.
On the other hand the UN secretary general special envoy to the Middle East Terry Rod Larsen arrived in Beirut on Tuesday to take part together with the UN delegation led by the UN chief Kofi Annan to attend the summit. For the same purpose the higher representative of the foreign policy in the European Union Javier Solana arrived in Beirut. Solana stressed he is attending to support Lebanon and the initiatives which are enabling to establish peace in the Middle East region.
