ARAB LEAGUE COLLAPSE

From: Middle East | Date: May 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

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Efforts to create a pan-Arab trading bloc suffered a severe stback with the abrupt cancellation of the March Arab League summit. Failure to act may prove very costly, complling Arabs to accept American or European alternatives. Josh Martin reports.

When Tunisia's President Ben Ali announced cancellation of this year's Arab League Summit, literally hours before it was to open, the international response was surprisingly phlegmatic. But the true cost of that cancellation may be very high, for with it died an opportunity to relaunch the Arab League as the engine for ...

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