CAIRO, Jan 6: Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Sunday he will head to crisis-wracked Lebanon to discuss a plan adopted by Arab foreign ministers calling for the election of presidential candidate Michel Sleiman.
“There has been an agreement which I will present to the Lebanese parties for discussion during my visit,” Mussa told reporters at an early morning news conference, adding that he will go to Beirut “within two days.”
Foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League held an extraordinary meeting on Saturday at the organisation’s Cairo headquarters aimed at resolving Lebanon’s worst political crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war.
The Arab ministers agreed on a three-point plan, namely the election of a president, forming a government of national unity and the adoption of a new electoral law, Mussa said.
They called for “an immediate agreement on the formation of a national unity government” in Lebanon, constructed in such a way as to deny either faction the right to impose their policies on the other side, he said.—AFP
