Arab Foreign Ministers concluded an extraordinary meeting held here today at a request of Palestine and under the chairmanship of Ali Ahmed Karti, Sudan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, led his country's delegation to the meeting. The meeting welcomed the U.S. administration's announcement that it was committed to a two-state solution for the Palestinian Israeli dispute according to all the agreed upon references of the peace process. In a statement following the meeting, the Arab Foreign Ministers categorically rejected the unilateral Israeli settlement policies aiming at changing the demography and geography of the occupied Palestinian territories, including Eastern Al-Quds. The statement called on the world community for immediate intervention to halt all Israeli measures in the occupied Palestinian territories. It cautioned from the dangers of ignoring those Israeli practices and violations. The meeting assigned the Arab group in New York to work for a United Nations General Assembly's issuance of a resolution assigning the International court of Justice to take up and issue a rule on the Israeli breaches of the sacred Eastern Al-Quds. The meeting called on the Arab financial institutions and funds to accredit additional financial obligations in support of the Palestinian peoples steadfast in Al-Quds and the surroundings. The meeting also decided to form a team of lawyers and legal experts to study all options to present charging Israeli leaders and decision-makers with war crimes before the world judiciary.
