AL delegation heads for Tunisia in preparations for Summit

A delegation representing the general secretariat of the Arab League left yesterday for Tunisia in order to prepare for the Arab summit due to be held before the end of March in Tunisia.

News reports in Cairo said that the delegation includes the advisor of the secretary general for AL council affairs Muhammad al-Zaydi and officials at the engineering, financial and technical departments. Tunisia which was hesitant in hosting the ordinary Arab summit had agreed to host it lastly following a visit by the AL secretary general Amr Moussa and his meeting with the Tunisian President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali.

Diplomatic sources in Tunisia said that the Arab foreign ministers will meet on March 27 and 28 to put the final touches for the summit.

Officials at the AL hopes the summit to conclude something positive this time, warning that its failure will constitute very heavy dangers on the Arab states.

Earlier, Amr Moussa stressed that the issue of restoring back full Iraqi sovereignty and ending foreign occupation of Iraq will be on top priorities of the next summit.

On the Arab- Israeli conflict, he explained that the initiative which was adopted by the Arab states at Beirut's summit of 2002, which proposed total normalization with Israel for its withdrawal from the occupied Arab lands since 1967 will be the option of the summit which will seek to achieve.