Arab League reaches mechanism to solve uncontested dues issue

The Arab League agreed on a mechanism to solve the issue of uncontested dues on some member states which reach $ 95 million.

The permanent financial and administrative affairs committee said at the conclusion of a two-day extraordinary meeting that the mechanism allows the Arab states to pay the arrears in several installments.

Assistant secretary general for financial and administrative affairs Ali Abdulkarim told reporters that under the mechanism, countries would pay their dues over three to five years.

He said the league understands the circumstances of the states which said that they are not able to pay the dues -- Iraq, Djibouti, Somalia and Comoros.

Abdulkarim said Sudan and Libya agreed to pay their dues.