Arab FMs agree on new peace plan

Published March 20, 2005

ALGIERS, March 19: Arab foreign ministers on Saturday reached agreement on a new draft of a controversial Middle East peace plan ahead of a summit next week, the Palestinian foreign minister said. “We agreed a new formula. We have used the same language” as in the plan that was adopted by the Arab League summit in Beirut in 2002, said Nasser al-Qidwa. “Nothing has changed in the new wording relative to what was in the Beirut declaration concerning Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees,” he added. Mr Qidwa had been charged with rehashing the plan, which is due to be presented as a Jordanian resolution at the two-day Algiers summit which begins on Tuesday. Jordan’s King Abdullah II said last week that Arab nations would revive the plan, adapting it to ensure that it was better received by Israelis.—AFP

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