Bin Yahya meets with Mubarak, Moussa; Tunisia has not decided to host the Arab summit yet

The Tunisian foreign minister al-Habib Bin Yahya said yesterday in Cairo that his country has not decided yet if it will host the Arab summit in March on not, rather loomed the summit will be held in Egypt.

The Tunisian Minister told journalists following a meeting held with the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, that "article four of the mechanism of the periodical meeting of the Arab summit which was approved at Cairo's summit in 2000 states that the convening of the summit to be at the headquarters of the Arab league ( Egypt) if it is not hosted by the country which assumes the summit's periodical presidency."

Tunis assumed the current presidency of the Arab summit in March in succession of Bahrain which presides over it since Sharm esh Sheikh Summit which was held in March 2003. Bin Yahya added that his country "will decide its position concerning the hosting of the summit shortly, and remarked that Tunisia prefers to convene this summit in Egypt. He insisted on that "the rule" convening the rotating presidency of the summit is to be held in the country of the headquarters and that it can be hosted by the country of the presidency.