Egyptian FM, AL Chief Meet on Arab Summit ImplementationEgyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa met here Saturday with the Cairo-based Arab League's Secretary General Esmat Abdel-Meguid on the implementation of the resolutions adopted by last month's Arab summit.Moussa and Abdel-Meguid discussed the arrangements for convening the first ministerial meeting of the follow-up committee set up by the summit. The summit, held in the Egyptian capital on October 21-22, was mainly focussed on the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli clashes. The Arab leaders in the summit pledged in resolutions to provide moral and financial aid to the Palestinians. The Arab leaders, among other things, agreed to freeze normalization with Israel and establish two funds with a total endowment of 1 billion US dollars to help maintain the Arab and Islamic characters of Jerusalem and support the families of the Palestinian victims in clashes with Israeli soldiers. The summit set up a follow-up committee, comprising foreign ministers of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian National Authority, Tunisia, Morocco and Saudi Arabia, to takes charge of the implementation of the resolutions. Moussa said on Thursday that during its contacts with the other parties in the committee, Egypt has raised the issues of pressing Israel to pull out troops from Palestinian territories and reviving the Mideast peace process "on acceptable basis." Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat Wednesday night reached truce understandings, requesting the two sides to take measures to stop the violence, which has killed over 160 people, mostly Palestinians, and wounded thousands in more than one month. |
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