ARAB AFFAIRS - Mar 2 - Efforts To Confront Bush Initiative & Reform The League Await Summit. From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: March 6, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Input Solutions. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Arab foreign ministers (FMs), ending a two-day meeting meet in Cairo, fail to adopt a joint Arab strategy to confront US Pres. Bush's "Greater Middle East Initiative" to democratise the region and a plan to reform the Arab League. The ministers decide to refer these two matters for their rulers to handle at their Arab summit conference due to be held in Tunisia on March 29-30. (The league has been largely paralysed for most of its existence by divisions between the 22 member-states...