CAIRO, August 15, 2011 (WAFA) – An urgent meeting of the Arab peace initiative follow-up committee on a foreign ministers level will be held in the Qatari Capital Doha on August 23, Monday said the Arab League.

The meeting will be attended by President Mahmoud Abbas and Arab League secretary-general, Nabil Al-Arabi and comes upon the request of Palestine and following talks between general secretariat of the Arab League and head of the committee, Qatar.

The meeting will discuss all the developments of the Palestinian issue, arrangements made for  the Palestinian bid to gain United Nations admission and recognition of a Palestinian state, particularly after the Arab Side prepared all required legal and procedural files, in addition to the intensive Arab talks with the world’s capitals in order to gain an international recognition of the state of Palestine within the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital.

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