BEIRUT: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has formerly invited Prime Minister Tammam Salam to attend the annual Arab League summit which will be held in Cairo later this month.
The invitation was handed to Salam Friday by Egypt’s charge d'affaires to Lebanon Mohammad Badreddine Zayed.
Sources close to the premier said Salam would attend the summit.
The president traditionally attends the annual Arab League summit. But Salam will attend this year due to the vacancy in Lebanon's presidential seat. The country has been without a president since last May.
Zayed said he discussed with Salam the premier’s participation in the economic conference to be held Sharm el-Sheikh next week.
“We also discussed the recent Arab and regional situation and ways out of the current situation that is threatening regional stability,” Zayed said from the Grand Serail.
National security would top the agenda of the Arab League meeting scheduled to be held March 28-29 in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi met Sisi Tuesday to prepare for the high-level talks.
He told reporters at the League’s Cairo headquarters that the main topic of the summit “will be how to maintain national security in Arab countries.”
Arab League officials have said that threats from ISIS, the Syria war, and the crises in Libya and Yemen were also on the agenda.
Arab foreign ministers will hold separate preparatory meetings – one in Cairo on March 9 and another in Sharm el-Sheikh on March 26 – ahead of the League meeting.
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