President Saleh to take part in five-way summit in Libya

Saba
SANA’A, June 17 (Saba) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh is to take part in a five-way summit that will kick off on 28 June in the Libyan city of Sert, Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said on Thursday.The summit will bring together the president of the countries members in the Arab Committee to activate Arab joint action, who are Presidents of Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar and the Secretary General of the Arab League, Al-Qirbi told the 26 weekly.”The summit will review issues pertaining to triggering the Arab joint action on the light of Yemen’s initiative to found an Arab Union as well as the ideas of the Libyan president in this regard”, he said.The summit will discuss the recommendations submitted by the ministerial meeting of the five-way committee held in June in Cairo, in the sidelines of the Arab foreign ministers meeting to discuss the Israeli aggressive assault on the “Freedom Flotilla”.The Arab summit held late in March in Libya has approved the foundation of the five-way committee to discuss mechanisms to advance the joint Arab action.AF/AF