Israeli conflict and dealing with the Iranian challenge concerning the nuclear file, the security of the Arab Gulf region, the interference of foreign parties in the Arab affairs in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. Prince Saud called for a joint Arab stand on dealing with the new United States administration and working to benefit from the willingness expressed by President Obama's administration to early deal with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict file. Prince Saud commended the Darfur agreement recently signed in Doha and the Arab Economic Summit held in Kuwait in January. In turn, the chairman of the session, Sudan's minister of state for foreign affairs Ali Ahmad Karti stressed the need for ending Arab division within the framework of the initiative of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz before the Kuwait Economic Summit. Karti mentioned the recent Saudi-Syrian concord and its role in achieving Lebanese reconciliation. Later, the public session was adjourned and turned into a closed-door session attended by the delegations' heads.
