The 10th session of the ministerial meeting of the Mediterranean Forum for the member states of the extended Middle East and North Africa, held under the co-chairmanship of Egypt-Britain and participation of a number of Arab countries and the G8 industrial countries, in addition to other countries among to mention are Pakistan, Afghanistan and Switzerland. The participants failed to endorse the final version of the ministerial declaration, because of differences on some items, among a clause related to Palestine.