AL council to include UN decision 181 on September 4 - 5

A source at the Arab League said on Wednesday that the 112th session of the AL will be held on September 4 and 5 instead of September 8 and 9. The source said the reason behind the early convening of the 112th session is that it coincided with the emergency African summit due to be held in Libya on September 6 though 9, in order to carry out possible revisions of the Organization of African Unity charter.

The general secretariat of the AL has included decision no. 181 of the UN General Assembly which calls for the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, on the agenda of the council of Arab foreign ministers.

The AL secretariat stressed that the aim behind reviving the resolution, which was rejected by the Arabs in 1947, is to "assert commitment of the Arab states to this resolution and considering it the grounds for the foundation of the state of Palestine."