ARAB FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET IN CAIRO

Cairo, 9 Jumadil Awwal 1435/10 March 2014 (MINA) – Arab foreign ministers kicked off on Sunday a TWO-day meeting in the Cairo headquarters of the Arab League to prepare for the upcoming Arab summit, to be hosted by Kuwait on March 25. The two-day meeting will address a host of issues including preparations for the upcoming Arab summit in Kuwait.

The top diplomats will address a host of issues including activating common Arab work, the basic system of the Arab Court of Human Rights and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Arab diplomatic sources told Anadolu Agency.

They will also discuss the situation in Syria, Lebanon, Libya and Yemen along with Arab relations with Turkey, the sources added, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting, Monday (10/3).

Ahmed Jarba, the head of the Syrian opposition bloc, South Sudanese Foreign Minister Barnaba Benjamin, and Abdou Salam Diallo, the chairman of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, attended the opening session.

Qatar’s top diplomat a no-show at Arab FMs meeting

Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-attiyah made a no-show at a meeting of the Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Sunday. Qatar was rather represented by a foreign ministry undersecretary.

Arab foreign minister kicked off on Sunday a two-day meeting in the Cairo headquarters of the Arab League to prepare for the upcoming Arab summit, to be hosted by Kuwait on March 25.

They will also discuss the situation in Syria, Lebanon, Libya and Yemen along with Arab relations with Turkey, the sources added.

The low-level Qatari participation came a few days after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from Doha protesting what they had described as Qatar’s intervention in their affairs.

Regretting the recall, Qatar said the decision had to do with the positions of the three countries on issues that fall outside the borders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a grouping of the six Arab countries overlooking the Arab Gulf.(T/P012/E01)

Mi’raj Islmic News Agency (MINA)