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CAIRO, Feb 18 (KUNA) -- Arab League General Secretariat here confirmed
Friday that it had not received so far official request from any Arab country
to postpone the upcoming Arab summit, scheduled to be held in the Iraqi
capital of Baghdad, early next month.
"We have not received any request from any member state in this regard,"
Head of the Arab League Secretary General's Office ambassador Hisham Youssef
told (KUNA).
This comes following media reports that the Arab League had decided to put
off Baghdad summit sine die. Under the mechanism, approved by Cairo
extraordinary Arab summit in 2000, the Arab summit is held regularly on a
yearly basis each year in a different Arab capital. (end)
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