The twenty-seventh Arab summit in Mauritania concluded its activities with issuance of the Nouakchott Declaration, which stressed the importance of the Palestinian issue in the joint Arab action, and supporting the Palestinian people's steadfastness in face of the systematic Israeli aggression, and devoting all efforts for the sake of a comprehensive just and lasting solution based on the Arab peace initiative, the Madrid principles, rules of international law and UN relevant resolutions. The declaration welcomed the French initiative that called for holding an international peace conference that would lead to the establishment of a Palestinian sovereign state with East Jerusalem as its capital within a specified timeframe. It also called on the international community to implement international resolutions that would end the Israeli occupation and achieve the Israeli forces' withdrawal from the entire Arab occupied territories, including the Syrian Golan Heights and occupied areas in South Lebanon. The Arab leaders also welcomed the recent Egyptian efforts to push forward the Middle East peace process. The declaration stressed Arab states' commitment to use the most effective means to protect Arab national security, by developing mechanisms to fight terrorism in all its forms, promoting peace and security, encouraging dialogue and fending off hatred and extremism. On the situation in Libya, the Nouakchott Declaration called on the conflicting parties to deploy all possible efforts to rebuild the country and face terrorist groups. Arab leaders have also urged the warring parties in Yemen to reach positive solutions at the ongoing Kuwait Peace Talks. They added that the current meetings held in Kuwait should be an opportunity to promote peaceful dialogue that would hopefully result in the establishment of stability and security in the war-torn country. --More
