Arab leaders agreed to reactivate a Saudi-proposed Arab peace initiative
without any modification during a closed-door session yesterday, 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.