EGYPT: ARAB FOREIGN MIMNISTERS MEET TO PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY SUMMIT EXPECTED TO REVIEW ARAB TIES WITH ISRAEL

Record ID: 648293

  • Title: EGYPT: ARAB FOREIGN MIMNISTERS MEET TO PREPARE FOR EMERGENCY SUMMIT EXPECTED TO REVIEW ARAB TIES WITH ISRAEL
  • Date: 19th October 2000
  • Summary: CAIRO CONFERENCE CENTRE, NASR CITY, CAIRO, EGYPT (OCTOBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV: CAIRO CONFERENCE CENTRE 0.04 2. SV: SIGN READING CAIRO CONFERENCE CENTRE 0.07 3. MV: FOREIGN MINISTERS OF GULF COUNTRIES WALKING INTO MEETING 0.25 4. SV: EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINSTER AMR MOUSSA REVIEWING PAPERS 0.29 5. WS: ARAB FOREIGN MINISTERS STANDING A MINUTE OF SILENCE FOR THE PALESTINIANS WHO WERE KILLED IN THE RECENT CLASHES 0.43 6. VARIOUS OF ARAB FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING INCLUDING; PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION (PLO), HEAD OF POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, FAROUQ KADDOUMI, SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER FAROUQ AL SHARA, SAUDI ARABIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PRINCE SAUD AL-FAISAL AND IRAQI FOREIGN MINSTER MOHAMED SAEED AL SAHAF ALL SEATED 1.03 7. SV: EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINSTER AMR MOUSSA ADDRESSING MEETING 1.19 8. SV: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES FOREIGN MINISTER RASHID ABDULLAH AL-NUAMI SEATED 1.24 9. WIDE/SV OF MEETING (2 SHOTS) 1.36 10. SV: PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANISATION (PLO), HEAD OF POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, FAROUQ KADDOUMI ADDRESSING MEETING 2.01 11. SV: KUWATI FOREIGN MINSTER SHEIKH SABAH AL-AHMED AL-SABAH SEATED 2.05 12. SV: LEBANESE PRIME MINSTER SELIM AL-HOSS SEATED 2.09 13. SV: ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERAL ESMAT ABDUL MAGUIED SEATED 2.18 14. WS: DELEGATES APPAULDING 2.22 15. SV: SYRIAN FOREIGN MINSTER FAROUQ AL-SHARA ADDRESSING MEETING 3.01 16. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) PALESTINIAN PLANNING AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION MINISTER NABIL SHAATH AFTER MEETING SAYING: "The Palestinian people need support to go on, need economic support, need real support. We are extremely delighted to see the Arab people contribute voluntarily to their Palestinian brothers, but here I think its a moment where the Arab governments have to seriously offer help through a fund that is managed through the Arab league." 3.31 17. WIDE OF SHAATH 3.35 18. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN PLANNING AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION MINISTER NABIL SHAATH SAYING: "Arab pressure is important and valuable, we are only asking to receive help in order to resist, until we reach not only the Palestinian people but also the Arab world." 3.52 19. MV: POLICEMAN WITH SNIFFER DOG OUTSIDE CONFERENCE CENTRE 3.58 20. SV/WS: SECURITY OUTSIDE CONFERENCE HALL (2 SHOTS) 4.05 21. MV'S: WORKERS PAINTING ROAD (2 SHOTS) 4.15 22. PAN: SECURITY IN FRONT OF CAIRO CONFERENCE CENTRE 4.22 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: NASR CITY, CAIRO, EGYPT
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVACJ4N01D37J1ANIZQOU77E0ALT
  • Story Text: Arab foreign ministers have met to prepare for an
    emergency summit expected to review Arab ties with Israel.

    The meeting follows weeks of bloody clashes between
    Palestinians and Israelis which threatened to erupt into
    all-out war.



    The meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo on Thursday
    (October 19, 2000) comes just two days ahead of a two-day
    Arab summit.

    Recent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians, which
    erupted on September 28, almost wiped out the progress
    achieved in seven years of peacemaking in the region and
    prompted Egypt to convene the first Arab summit in four years
    to pledge support for the Palestinians.

    The Arab ministers started their meeting with a minute of
    silence for the Palestinians killed in the clashes that have
    provoked a wave of popular outrage across the Arab world.

    Reviving a dormant Damascus-based Arab League office that
    organised a boycott of Israeli goods and companies dealing
    with Israel for decades may also reach the summit agenda.

    Hardline states such as Yemen and Iraq want Arab states
    to sever ties with Israel. Egypt and Jordan are the only two
    Arab countries to have signed peace treaties with Israel. A
    few others have low-level ties with the Jewish state.

    The emergency summit, which begins on Saturday (October
    21, 2000) will be the first to include Iraq since its 1990
    invasion of Kuwait.

    Palestinian Planning and Cooperation Minister Nabil Saath
    said he hoped that the meeting would decide on a package of
    support for the Palestinians: "I think its a moment where the
    Arab governments have to seriously offer help through a fund
    that is managed through the Arab league," he told journalists
    in Cairo.

    Attempts to hold an Arab summit in recent years have been
    scuppered by controversy over whether to invite Iraq. In an
    apparent compromise, Iraqi Vice-President Ezzat Ibrahim and
    Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz will represent their country,
    but President Saddam Hussein will stay at home.

    Some Arab diplomats had feared squabbles between Gulf Arab
    states and Baghdad would overshadow the summit but Egypt has
    restricted the agenda to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.


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