By Xinhua
Cairo : Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa said Sunday that Arabs have made enough concessions and there will be no more Arab concessions in talks for Mideast peace, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
“The Arab stance on (Mideast) peace is no more concessions,” Moussa was quoted as saying.
He explained that the Arab stance has been made clear through its peace initiative, which has been endorsed by the UN Security Council, the international Quartet and all other parties concerned.
“Arabs have made enough concessions. The door to concessions has been closed,” he stressed.
The Arab Peace Initiative, which was first approved in 2002 and reactivated during the 19th Arab summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in March this year, offers to extend recognition to Israel by all Arab countries provided that it withdraws from all Arab territories it occupied in the 1967 war, including East Jerusalem.
Talking about an upcoming U.S.-sponsored international conference on Mideast peace, Moussa reiterated Arab support to the conference, adding he intends to hold an Arab foreign ministerial meeting to probe preparations ahead of the conference.
He, meanwhile, criticized Israel for having no specific position on the Mideast peace, which has led to an imbalance and the present ambiguity over the conference.
The Israeli ambiguity should become clear before the conference, which was set to be held this fall in the United States, Moussa urged.