Article: Arab League delegation to pay historic visit to Israel

Jerusalem, July 11 -- An Arab League delegation will visit Israel for peace talks later this month, the first visit in more than half a century since the foundation of both the Arab League and Israel.

The delegates - including the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan - are scheduled to visit July 25, an Israel foreign ministry spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

The meeting will focus on the 2002 Arab peace initiative, which offers all-round Arab recognition of Israel in return for a full withdrawal from the West Bank and a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem.

It was first proposed at the Arab League summit in Beirut some five years ago, but was re-launched at the latest summit in ...

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