UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24: Arab nations are asking the UN Security Council to launch a new Middle East peace process to end the Arab-Israeli dispute over the occupied territories as the road map established in 2003 by the so-called Quartet is ‘dead’, diplomats here said on Thursday.
The Quartet, comprising the US, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, drafted a road map to end the Arab-Israel dispute, but so far it has failed to persuade Israel to implement it.
Yahya Mahmassani, the Arab League’s envoy to the United Nations, told the Associated Press he had personally discussed the foreign ministers’ request with the Security Council members and ‘there is very strong support’ for the idea of convening a council meeting.
