(From L to R): Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, Iraqi President Jalal
Talabani, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al Ahmed al Jaber al Sabah and
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani share a laugh prior to the
19th Arab League summit in Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arab on March 28,
2007. The 19th Arab League summit brought together 17 heads of state of
the 22-member pan-Arab bloc. (Xinhua/Lin Yiguang) Photo
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RIYADH,
March 28 (Xinhua) -- Arab leaders agreed to reactivate a Saudi-proposed Arab
peace initiative without any modification during a closed-door session on
Wednesday, local media quoted a well-informed Arab League official as reporting.
The leaders, convening in Riyadh for the 19th Arab
summit, called for activating the peace initiative, which was adopted in Beirut
summit in 2002, aiming at reinforcing an Arab effort to end the Arab-Israeli
conflict, the source said on condition of anonymity.
The peace initiative calls for Israel's pullout from
Arab land occupied in the 1967 Middle East war and the establishment of an
independent Palestinian state in return for the normalization of ties with Arab.
In addition, the source disclosed that the summit
also approved several other resolutions, but did not elaborate.
Leaders or representatives from 22 member states of
the Arab League, except Libya, met here for a two-day summit to ponder the draft
resolutions that a foreign ministerial meeting had submitted to them.
RIYADH, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Arab League (AL) Secretary
General Amr Moussa said here on Wednesday that Arabs are ready to enter a peace
process aimed at ending the Arab-Israeli conflict which he said is the core of
instability and tension in the Middle East.
"The Arabs have prepared themselves to start a peace
process to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, partly through helping the Palestinian
warring factions reach an agreement in Mecca to end infighting and pave the way
for formation of a national unity government," Moussa said while addressing the
opening session of the 19th Arab summit that started in Saudi capital of Riyadh
earlier in the day. Full
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