The 131st session of the Council of Arab League at the Arab ministerial level began here today under the chairmanship of Sudan's foreign minister Ali Ahmad Karti. Prince Saud Alfsaisal, the Foreign Minister and head of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's delegation, delivered a speech in which he reviewed the most prominent issues dealt with during the previous session of the council which he chaired expressing thanks and appreciation to all for the cooperation desire they expressed during the previous session. Prince Saud said that the Arab Peace Initiative faced a lot of challenges and difficulties within the context of working to promote it and call for its adoption as a basis for a comprehensive solution for the Israeli-Arab conflict because of Israel's intransigence and its continued disregard for the bases and requirements of the peace process which led to an increasing feeling of disappointment with the continued diminishing of the chances of making the desired peace pointing out that this led to the emergence of voices asking for abandoning this initiative without providing a reasonable and alternative strategy for dealing with the Arab-Israeli conflict. In his speech, Prince Saud said that abandoning this initiative in view of the prevailing balance of power and the aggravated Arab reality will not help at all in improving this reality or ending its aggravation. He added that canceling the initiative will represent a kind of harming one's self in the absence of better alternative. Prince Saud stated that the initiative of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz came to get Arabs out of the circle of division and disagreement at the Kuwait Summit. This initiative boosted all Arabs' feeling of the possibility of getting out of this impasse through the adoption of a method based on Arab concord as the best guarantee to confront challenges and adversities suffered by the Arabs over the last decades, Prince Saud said. --More
