Sudan, Yemen plead for emergency Arab summit

Sudan and Yemen pleaded on Tuesday for the holding of an emergency Arab summit to examine the situation in the Arab states at the turn of the century.

Sudan and Yemen decided to join efforts to plead for an Arab summit that will examine the challenges of globalization and the plots targeting the Arab states in the third millennium, said Tuesday Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman Ismail at a joint news conference with his Yemeni peer, Abdal Qadir al-Ba Jamal.

In the same vein, The Yemeni foreign minister, who was on a visit to Sudan, said the summit must be "a serious working session." He called Arabs to institute regular summit meetings instead of emergency meetings.