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| Arab foreign ministers to meet on Sunday on Gaza | |
| 2008-12-28 | |
“The council of Arab foreign ministers will hold an extraordinary and immediate meeting tomorrow or the day after ... at the request of Jordan,” Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said. His spokesman said later it would be Sunday. “It will take a joint Arab position on what is happening and at the same time agree on the steps to be taken,” Moussa added. But Omani Information Minister Hamad bin Mohammed al-Rashdi told Reuters in Muscat that a meeting of Gulf foreign ministers would go ahead as planned on Sunday. Ministers can send deputies or ambassadors to the Cairo meeting. Moussa said the attacks on Saturday were only the beginning. “We are facing a continuing spectacle which has been carefully planned. So we have to expect that there will be many casualties. We face a major humanitarian catastrophe,” he said. A separate Arab League statement condemned the Israeli attacks and said Jordan and Egypt wanted the foreign ministers to “call for an end to the massacres which Israel is committing against the Palestinian people in Gaza”. In Damascus, the official SANA news agency said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was in contact with Arab leaders on the possibility of holding an emergency Arab summit to discuss what a Syrian official source called a “heinous crime”. The agency said that Assad, who hosted the last Arab summit earlier this year, spoke to the leaders of Qatar, Libya, Sudan and Yemen to discuss the Israeli raids on Gaza. “Syria ... calls on Arab leaders to hold an emergency Arab summit to discuss the dangerous situation in Gaza,” the source said. The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, also proposed that Arab leaders follow up the foreign ministers meeting by holding a summit, the Arab League said. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh condemned the attack as a “barbaric aggression” and called for an emergency Arab summit to discuss it, Yemen’s state news agency Saba reported. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora also condemned Israel’s “latest massacres” in Gaza and appealed in a statement to the United Nations and its secretary-general to take swift measures to end the Israeli attacks. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 "It will take a joint Arab position on what is happening and at the same time agree on the steps to be taken," Arabs haven't agreed on anything in 4000 years. Except for that "Death to Israel/U.S." chant thing. |
| Posted by: Poison Reverse 2008-12-28 17:38 |
| #2 " Do you have the GPS lock ? " "Yes, Sir" "Fire" Mission accomplished. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-12-28 10:58 |
| #1 Or, maybe, Monday---soon, anyway. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-12-28 07:29 |