Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul-Gheit, left, with President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. WAFA photo by Thaer Ghanayem.

RAMALLAH, November 9, 2016 (WAFA) – Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abul-Gheit, arrived on Wednesday in Ramallah ahead of the opening ceremony of Yasser Arafat Museum.

Abul-Gheit’s delegation included former secretary generals of the Arab League Nabil al-Arabi and Amr Moussa.

The Arab delegation later met with President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah where they discussed the situation in Palestine in addition to Arab support for the Palestinian people.

Abbas welcomed the guests, stressing the importance of their visit toward the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.

He stressed the importance of coordination between the Arab League and the Palestinian leadership on future steps to protect Palestinian rights and to work toward ending the Israeli occupation and establishing the independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders.

Abbas also said that it was important that there should be Arab backing to the French initiative to convene an international conference on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict before the end of this year to resume the peace process.

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