By IRNA
Damascus : Annual summit of the Arab League opened continuing in Syria’s capital Damascus on Saturday.
Some 11 heads of states from the 22-member organisation were present at the summit on Saturday.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan were among those sending low-level delegations to the two-day gathering.
In his inaugural address, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied his country was meddling in Lebanon.
He was responding to Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who had accused Syria of preventing the election of a consensus president in Beirut.
Assad said his country was willing to join “Arab or non-Arab efforts” to end Lebanon’s political crisis “on condition that they are based on Lebanese national consensus”.