Arab summit cut to single day as heavyweights absent

A 22-nation Arab summit to tackle the region's various crises was cut back to a single day of talks Monday (July 25th) due to the absence of heavyweights Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stayed at home because of "a busy domestic schedule" while Saudi King Salman's no-show was due to "health reasons", AFP reported.

The summit, originally scheduled for two full days, is to focus primarily on security and on plans for a joint security force across a region fraught with tension, notably in Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and the Palestinian territories.

However, pre-summit ministerial talks showed there were sharp divisions over attitudes towards the tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

It is the first Arab League summit hosted by Mauritania since it joined the organisation in 1973.

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Before reading the article, my comment is that you consider the terrorist, diabolic kingdom to be one of the Arab countries, although it is alleging to be Arab and Islamic. You consider it to be one of the big countries, although it is only the size of a shoe for a citizen of any of the honest countries that are the symbol of Arabism. As to why it didn’t attend the Arab summit, it is not because the king of terrorism is sick; it is true he has been sick since they brought him to power, but you have to be frank and announce the reason that prevented it from attending the summit, which is that there is a severe chaos in Al Saud royal family.

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