Arabs Back On Board For Mediterranean Union
CAIRO (AFP)--Arab states will rejoin the Mediterranean Union, which has been
frozen since the Gaza war in December-January, an Arab League official said
Wednesday, despite reservations about sitting down with Israel.
"The whole Arab group will participate in the next meetings. We will not be
the ones to block the process," Mohammed al-Nasseri, who heads the Euro-Arab
cooperation department at the Arab League, told AFP.
He said Arab members, which include the Palestinians, would attend the July 7
meeting in Brussels to formally announce the 43-member union's relaunch.
The Arab members will first attend a Euro-Mediterranean ministerial meeting in
Paris Thursday on sustainable development, Nasseri said.
Launched at a Paris summit in July, the Union groups E.U. member states with
countries in North Africa, the Balkans, Arab world as well as Israel in a bid to
foster cooperation.
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