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Still More Arab League: Egypt's Pres Mansour calls on Arab leaders to fight terrorism
2014-03-26
[Al Ahram] In his speech Tuesday at the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
 summit in Kuwait, Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour called on his Arab counterparts to join in the fight against terrorism.
An amusing thought, Arab countries together implementing anything more complicated than a boycott.
Terrorism is "threatening the whole region," said Mansour, but he insisted that terrorist groups would only make their opponents "more determined to uproot them."

Mansour urged those attending the summit to reactivate the Arab Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, an anti-terrorism pact signed in 1998 by 18 out of 22 members of the vaporous Arab League, but which has never been enforced.

Mansour suggested that a meeting be held before June with Arab justice ministers and interior ministers to gauge how much of the pact is currently being implemented.

The pact stipulates that signatories must not give shelter to terrorists, Mansour noted, which means that Arab states must hand over persons for whom Egypt has issued arrest warrants.
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