Arab summit in Tunisia

Tunisia – The 30th Arab Ordinary Summit will be held in Tunis on Sunday amid pressing issues at the table, including the impact of the US statement on the Syrian Golan and the Palestinian financial crisis.

Observers call for more realistic solutions to "determine the future of the Arab track", while Tariq Fahmi, a researcher in international relations, calls the summit "the summit of the determination of the course".

"The recycling of the so-called Arab Peace Initiative (2002), or the threat of its withdrawal or freezing, is very important for considerations related to what is happening in the region as a whole. summit of the self-determination of the Arab regional system.

An Arab summit held in Beirut in 2002 adopted a Saudi initiative for peace with Israel, stipulating normal Arab relations with Israel in exchange for its withdrawal from occupied Arab territories, the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem capital and a fair solution to the refugee problem. Initiative

The 30th summit, one month after the announcement by the Palestinian Authority that Israel seized, on February 17, $ 139 million in tax revenue per year, as a punitive measure, in order Allocate part of the Palestinian Authority to the salaries of detainees and families of martyrs, discuss ways to end the Palestinian Authority's financial deadlock, and a few days after Trump announced at a press conference in Washington with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, officially recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel occupied in 1967.

Arab summit spokesman Mahmoud al-Khamiri said there was an Arab consensus to reject the US decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan.

"The US decision is a step against international resolutions and the UN Charter, which insists on the non-seizure of land from others," Khumiri said at a press conference at the center of press of the summit in Tunis.

He stressed that Arab foreign ministers will discuss at their meeting on Friday, the form that will take the Arab countries, and that there will be strong alternatives to reject this step, stressing that it " there will be stronger stages than the previous ones ".

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The secretary general of the League of Arab States, Mahmoud Afifi, said at a press conference that the agenda of the summit included about twenty projects, the main one being the Palestinian question and its crisis the crisis in Syria and the situation in Libya and Yemen. He stressed that the Tunis summit had issued a resolution on the Syrian Golan in the light of recent developments, noting that Syria's return to its frozen seat since 2011 was not inscribed at the day of the Tunis summit.

He stressed that the Palestinian issue will be at the center of the concerns to deal with the plight of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian people and to discuss the difficult financial situation and ways out of this stalemate.

An unconventional agenda

In this climate, Tariq Fahmi believes that the next summit is very important for considerations related to what is happening throughout the region. "Either we interact positively, or we do not face anything, we are not supposed to establish a traditional program, we need an Arab attitude towards what is happening," he said.

He said that "if Arab leaders attend the summit, it's a message to America, even if it does not lead to strong decisions," he added: "We expect to an Arab reaction to what is happening in the region.Therefore, if we deal with this summit, In a real impasse the coming period. "

This is due to several reasons, including the fact that the Arab nation, before the summit of Tunisia, is seriously contained in the US peace and compromise agreement known as "Deal of the Century", adding that "we expect that the records of Palestine and Syria begin to be worse", began with the recognition of the American Golan. And earlier in Jerusalem. "

He stressed that during the Tunis summit, it will be difficult for the Arab world to recycle the so-called "Arab Peace Initiative" (2002) or threaten to withdraw or freeze it. Do Arab countries have the will to do so?