Extraordinary meeting of Arab League to discuss Gaza and Lebanon
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Cairo (eCanadaNow) - The Arab League is due to hold an extraordinary meeting Friday to discuss the upsurge of violence in Gaza and Lebanon, the league said from its Cairo headquarters Thursday.
Around 15 foreign ministers from a total of 22 Arab League member states are due to participate in the talks to which the warring Palestinian Hamas and Fatah factions have been summoned, according to the reports.
The Islamic Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement have been threatened with the withdrawal of money pledged to them by league members if they do not attend, the reports said.
Concrete discussions concerning the deployment of Arab peacekeeping troops to the Gaza Strip were however not expected.
Arab League leaders would also discuss the series of bomb blasts in Lebanon, the latest of which killed prominent anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido along with his son and eight other people Wednesday.
The conflict between Islamist extremists and the Lebanese Army centred around the Palestinian refugee camp at Nahr al-Bared would also be discussed.
The international tribunal appointed to investigate the murder of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri was not on the agenda.
The tribunal, for which Lebanese and foreign judges are currently being sought, is one of the major causes of conflict between the anti-Syrian government majority and the pro-Syrian opposition in Lebanon. |
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