Cairo, Mar 3 (NNN-KUNA) Arab Foreign Ministers are arriving in Cairo for the 127th ministerial session due to kick off at the Arab League headquarters on Sunday. The session will address a host of issues relevant to joint Arab action.
Arriving in Cairo early Saturday were the Foreign Ministers of Yemen, Abu Bakr Al-Kerabi; Tunisia, Mohammad Abdul-Raouf Al-Basti, and Somalia, Ismail Mahmoud Herri, in addition to the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Political Department, Farouk Kaddoumi.
Arab Foreign Ministers who arrived in the Egyptian capital yesterday included Moroccan Foreign Minister Mohamed Ben Aissa, Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zibari, and Qatari Ahmed Abdullah Al-Mahmoud, together with the Sudanese President's Advisor, Moustafa Osman Ismail, Djibouti Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ahmed Ali Youssef, and the Algerian Minister of Labor and Social Security, Tayeb Louh.
The Arab Foreign Ministers are due to hold a consultative meeting later today upon request of Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul-Gheit to discuss a number of issues on the agenda of the Sunday meetings.
The agenda comprises 20 items covering all aspects of the Arab joint action topped with the "draft agenda" of the Arab 19th Summit due in Riyadh on March 28-29.
Chaired by Tunis, the session will address the latest developments in the region especially in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Darfur, and Somalia, besides arrangements for the Riyadh Summit.
The Arab Ministerial Committee on Iraq is also due to meet Sunday on the sidelines of the Foreign Ministers' meetings to discuss future Arab action on Iraq in light of the Iraq neighbors' meeting due in Baghdad.
The Baghdad meeting will also be attended by Egypt, Bahrain, the UN, the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), and the five permanent UN Security Council member states.
The permanent delegates to Arab League had submitted a number of draft resolutions covering various political and economic issues to the Sunday ministerial meeting, which is part of the arrangements ahead of the Riyadh Summit.