Cairo aborted proposal for holding emergency Islamic summit

05/01/2009

CAIRO, (PIC)-- Egypt has objected to and foiled an Iranian idea to hold an emergency Islamic summit conference to discuss the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip after earlier aborting the convening of an Arab summit.

Ambassador Naela Jabr, the Egyptian foreign minister's assistant, said in a press statement that Cairo did not find any use of such a summit in the light of the inter-Palestinian differences.

She claimed that a big number of members of the Islamic conference organization supported the Egyptian position.

The diplomat said that her country objected to holding the summit without "adequate preparations", and questioned the use of issuing a summit statement at a time when the Palestinians were divided.

Priority should be directed towards halting the aggression and ending the internal Palestinian strife, Jabr elaborated.

She also opined that the UN and other western powers would not care less about what happens to the Palestinians or any summit as long as inter-Palestinian division persisted.