Many issues face Arab ministers at Arab League meeting tomorrow

The Arab League council is going to hold a hot session on Wednesday, discussing 37 articles among Arab foreign ministers, chaired by Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa.

At the top of the subjects on the ministers' agenda comes recent developments in the peace process, methods of adopting a united position toward Israeli policy and the Lockerbie issue and the efforts required to implement Security Council resolution 1192 after Libya obtained guarantees to deliver the accused in the issue to the Dutch authorities.

The agenda includes Sudan's demand for an explicit condemnation of the US missile attack on a factory near Khartoum and Sudan's right to compensation.

Meanwhile Palestinian President Yasser Arafat will deliver a statement before the council tackling the current situation in Palestinian negotiations after US peace process envoy Dennis Ross' tour, delaying of the Israeli government in completing the requirements of the transitional stages of the Oslo accords, and Israel's illegal practices in the occupied territories and Jerusalem, in addition to the Palestinian government's intention to establish a Palestinian estate in May 1999.