Arab Officials Will Meet in Beirut
Charles Johnson
Fri Aug 4, 2006 at 10:33 am PDT • Views: 163
It was awfully hard to resist titling this one “Target Rich Environment:” Arab foreign ministers to meet Monday in Beirut.
CAIRO (AFP) - Arab foreign ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting Monday in Beirut to support Lebanon, Arab League number two Ahmed Ben Helli told AFP.
“The meeting of Arab foreign ministers will take place next Monday in Beirut, it will be a follow-up of the session which took place in Cairo on July 15,” the deputy secretary general of the pan-Arab body said Friday.
Israeli warplanes pounded areas north and south of Beirut on Friday, killing at least 28 people, as part of the military offensive against Lebanon launched following the July 12 capture of two Israeli soldiers by the Hezbollah militia.
“We are holding this meeting in Beirut to express solidarity with Lebanon,” the official added. Ben Helli said Arab League chief Amr Mussa was expected in Beirut on Sunday to prepare the meeting and hold talks with Lebanese officials on the crisis. …
The idea of holding an extraordinary meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in the war-torn country was initially floated by Saudi Arabia.
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