Jordan FM: Arab world ‘realizes urgency’ of tackling crises
DEAD SEA, Jordan — Arab leaders “realize the urgency” of tackling long-running regional crises, from war to high unemployment, Jordan’s foreign minister said Monday after chairing a meeting of his counterparts from the region.
Ayman Safadi said he and his colleagues endorsed more than a dozen policy resolutions, including several on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that are to be adopted Wednesday by heads of state of the 22-member Arab League at their annual gathering.
The summit, hosted this year by Jordan, comes at a time when festering crises have “led to an erosion in the level of trust that people have in the regional Arab order, in the Arab League,” Safadi told reporters. “So there is a realization of that, of the difficulty.”
Despite calls for unity, Arab League member states remain divided on key issues, including the six-year-old civil war in Syria.