LAS Secretary-General Confirms Arab League Ministerial Meeting With Abbas On Sunday

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published April 16, 2019 | 07:29 PM

Secretary-General of the League of Arab States (LAS) Ahmed Aboul Gheit confirmed to Sputnik that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would attend a council of LAS ministers on Sunday

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 16th April, 2019) Secretary-General of the League of Arab States (LAS) Ahmed Aboul Gheit confirmed to Sputnik that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas would attend a council of LAS ministers on Sunday.

"On Sunday, we will meet Abu Mazen [Abbas] at the LAS ministers' council, we will hear Palestine's detailed plans, then I will be able to say [if LAS plans to officially call on the international community to protect the Palestinians]," the secretary-general said, when asked if LAS was planning to make such a call.

On Monday, Egyptian media reports suggested that LAS foreign ministers would hold an emergency meeting with Abbas in Cairo on Sunday.