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Article: Arab League postpones summit amid divisions over reform.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- March 27, 2004
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Byline: Evan Osnos
TUNIS, Tunisia _ Underscoring the Arab world's deepening divisions over the pace of democratic reform, the Arab League on Saturday abruptly postponed a summit scheduled to begin less than 36 hours later.
In their first major meeting since the U.S. invasion of Iraq a year ago, the 22 member states of the Arab League were expected to broach some of the region's most sensitive issues of gender equality, market liberalization, and integration with the West. But the decision to delay the meeting indefinitely came after days of closed-door debate failed to choose among competing recipes for reform.
"It became clear that there was a ...