Arab Leaders Seek to Counter U.S. Plan for Mideast Overhaul

(New York Times) Arab governments, suspicious that the Bush administration plans to give priority to changing how the region is ruled rather than solving the Arab-Israeli conflict, began thrashing over a joint position on Wednesday to counter any such American initiative. In the absence of any formal plan yet from Washington, the Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo were less than unified in how to deal with an American strategy known basically through leaks or policy speeches.


2004-03-05 00:00:00

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