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Article: Arab League Chief on Importance of Arab Summit
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 18, 1996
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Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul-Meguid said here today
that the call for the convocation of the Pan-Arab summit came at a
most appropriate time.
It is high time for Arabs to come together and unify their stands
to protect the Middle East peace process and push it forward in the
right direction, Abdul-Meguid was quoted as saying by the Egyptian
Middle East News Agency (MENA).
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad
and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called for convening the
summit after their two-day meeting in Damascus, Syria, earlier this
month. Twenty-one of the Arab League's 22 members are expected to