Arab Peace Initiative committee holds urgent meeting in Doha

The Arab peace initiative committee will hold an urgent meeting in Doha on 23 August, under the chairmanship of HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor bin Jassim Al Thani, and in the presence of President Mahmoud Abbas and Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi, to discuss the final arrangements to seek full United Nations admission and recognition of a Palestinian state. Arab League''s Deputy Secretary General Ahmed Ben Helli said the meeting comes upon the request of Palestine and following talks between general secretariat of the Arab League and head of the committee, Qatar. The meeting will discuss all the developments of the Palestinian issue, arrangements made for the Palestinian bid to gain United Nations admission and recognition of a Palestinian state, particularly after the Arab Side prepared all required legal and procedural files, in addition to the intensive Arab talks with the world’s capitals in order to gain an international recognition of the state of Palestine within the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital. The committee''s members are Qatar (as chair), Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE , Oman, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Sudan and the Arab League.