AL chief confers with Bahrain's Cabinet affairs minister

The secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa yesterday received the minister of the Cabinet affairs in Bahrain Muhammad Ibrahim al-Mutawi on latest developments in the Middle East, especially the Iraqi and Palestinian issue, and arrangements relating to convening the next Arab summit due to be held in Bahrain in March 2003, and the first conference for heads of Arab parliaments, on the sideline of the summit's conference.