Minister leaves for Cairo to attend Arab League ministerial meeting

Text of report in English by Sudanese news agency Suna website, BBC Monitoring Middle East.

Sept 5, 2005 (Khartoum) — Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mustafa Uthman Isma’il left for Cairo Monday [5 September] to take part in the meeting of the Arab League’s ministerial council, scheduled to begin Wednesday [7 September] to discuss developments of the situations in the Arab countries. The minister pointed out in statements to Suna that the meeting would discuss developments in the Palestinian territories in the light of the partial Israeli pull out from Gaza as well as the situations in Iraq and the preparations of the Arab countries for the upcoming World Summit in New York.

Dr Isma’il explained that the Arab ministers of foreign affairs would review a unified Arab vision regarding the reforms of the UN’s Security Council as well as implementation of the decisions of the millennium decisions.

The minister explained that the meeting would review the situations in Sudan, referring to the recent visit of the first vice-president, Lt-Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit to Cairo where he met the secretary-general of the Arab League who agreed to organize a conference to develop the South of Sudan next February.