Ammon News - (KUNA) Arab Foreign Ministers hold a preparatory meeting on Sunday to put the final touches ahead of the 25th Arab Summit that would be held on Tuesday amidst critical developments in the Arab world .
The foreign ministers will discuss the draft resolutions, prepare the agenda of the two-day summit, Kuwait Declaration and the final communique to refer them to the Arab leaders.
The summit, the first to be hosted by Kuwait since joining the Arab League on June 20 1961, is held amidst critical regional and international circumstances, which required visions contributing to boosting solidarity among the Arab countries.
The Qatari Foreign Minister, the outcoming presidency, will give a speech and then hand over the presidency to Kuwait's First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, who will deliver a speech. Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Araby will also give some remarks.
The Arab summit will reflect His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah's keenness to activate common Arab action to honor aspirations of the Arab people, and to ultimately boost stability and security in the Arab countries.
The foreign ministers' meeting is held while the Syrian conflict was entering its fourth year following the collapse of the Geneva II negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition, in addition to the Israeli hostile policies against the occupied Palestinian territories.
The top diplomats will be discussing the Palestinian cause, the Arab-Israeli conflict and activating the Arab peace initiative after US Secretary of State John Kerry said the Israelis and Palestinians could not reach an agreement by next month.
They will reject recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which, if happens, would undermine the right of the Palestinian people to return to their lands and compensating the Palestinian refugees. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to recognize the Jewish state as a condition to resume negotiations.
They will also reject the Israeli settlement policies and separation barrier, reconsider the feasibility of the international diplomatic Quartet - the US, Russia, the EU and the UN - because of its failure to achieve peace in the Middle East.
The ministers will call upon the US and all EU countries to recognize the State of Palestine on the June 4 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Arab water security and Israeli's theft of water from occupied Arab territories will be discussed as well.
The foreign ministers will meanwhile express solidarity with Lebanon by providing political and economic support, and to help the Arab League member country put an end to the Israeli systematic violations of its sovereignty, and the importance of the Israeli withdrawal to the international borders.
The meeting will touch upon means to helping Lebanon cope with the influx of the Syrian refugees. The UN said there were more than 2.5 million Syrians refugees in neighboring countries, around one million of them in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministers will extend support to the sovereignty and independence of Libya, boosting cooperation with the Libyan security authorities to confront all forms of sabotage and terrorist acts, as well as cracking down on arms and drug dealers, and illegal immigration.
They will also reaffirm support to Yemen's unity, sovereignty and independence, in addition to the outcome of the national dialogue which took place in line with the GCC initiative.
They will reaffirm the sovereignty of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Moussa Islands currently occupied by Iran. They will condemn Iran's construction of housing units on the UAE islands, and remind Tehran of its desire to improve relations with the Arab countries.
The Arab foreign ministers will call on all rebel movements to sign the peace agreements about Darfur, support Sudan to fully implementing the agreements with South Sudan. They will also discuss the political and democratic transition in Somalia, the Comoros, the conflict between Djibouti and Eritrea, the threat posed by the Israeli armament on the Arab national security and international peace.
They will call for clearing the Middle East region from nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, discuss Saudi King Abdullah's decision to punish citizens taking part in conflicts abroad or being a member in a terrorist group.
The top diplomats will discuss relations with Africa, review outcome of the Arab-African summit that was held in Kuwait last November, call upon Arab Ambassadors in African countries to lobby for preventing Israel from obtaining an observor status in the African Union (AU), relations with third countries and international organizations, statute of the Arab Court of Human Rights and the development of the Arab League.
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