CAIRO, April 13, 2007 (WAFA) - The Arab League's Secretariat will host next Wednesday the meeting for the Arab peace initiative committee, a unit given the task in the late Arab summit in Riyadh to set the plan in motion.

The committee's role is to promote the initiative in the regional and international arenas in addition to the international quartet and permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council (UNSC).

Starting the plan's mechanism would be part of the committee's duties, which would also have to include the plan in the negotiations between Arab and Israelis as a core-part in Mideast peace talks.

The last Arab summit in Saudi Arabia issued a decree that affirmed the peace initiative which was ratified in Beirut's summit in 2002 to end Israeli-Arab dispute and to achieve everlasting peace.

Several countries took part in the committee including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Bahrain, Morocco, Yemen, Qatar, Tunisia, Algeria, and Sudan.

Meanwhile, Sean McCormack, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, ruled out that the possibility of holding a meeting for the international quartet's Middle East Peace committee on the sidelines of Iraq's neighboring countries conference next month in Egypt.

McCormack preferred that the committee would hold a meeting if the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came out with good results during their upcoming meeting, creating a launch-pad for the quartet to being their efforts.

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