Almotamar.net - Preparatory meetings for the Arab summit are to begin on Monday at the level of permanent delegates to the Arab League (AL) under chairmanship of the Libyan delegate who would be receiving the chair from his Qatari counterpart.
High level Egyptian diplomatic sources pointed out to initiatives to be seen at the summit presented by each of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Yemen besides a Libyan initiative and working plan dealing with vision of the new chairmanship of the summit on all current issues and challenges and ways of dealing with them.
The sources pointed out that the Arab summit agenda includes 27 articles at the top of which are drawing up a complementary plan for an Arab action for the salvation of Al-Quds, a Yemeni initiative for the development of the joint Arab action and a Syrian initiative for drawing up a mechanism for managing the Arab-Arab differences.
The assistant secretary general of the AL Ahmed Bi Hily has affirmed that the present Arab situations dictate on the upcoming Arab summit scheduled in Libya next Saturday to live to the level and has to come out with decisive resolutions for the reform and development of the Arab League in the light of the submitted initiatives.
The Yemeni initiative calls for transferring the AL from its present situation to a new Arab entity to be called Arab States Union to be in accord with regional and international variables and developments in all political, economic, social, defensive and security areas, it also calls for establishment of new organizational frames such as the Higher Council of the Union composed of Kings, Presidents and Emirs.
It also calls for establishing a permanent parliament, ministerial councils, Arab justice court and preparation of a constitution for the Arab States Union.
Yemeni initiative most important of what presented to reform Arab reality
In 2007 the opposition Yemen Congregation for Reform (Islah) Islamic oriented Party maintained its having political and media sway over the Joint meeting Parties (JMP) block, also consisting of Yemen Socialist Party and the Nasserite Unionist Organisation. 
Yemen is practically a cool green paradise, with crisp mountain air, enormous acacia trees, pristine coral reefs and verdant fields bursting with khat, a psychoactive plant that induces mild euphoria. 
Sana'a: Yemen will not be able to combat terror without regional and international cooperation, said a Yemeni official, who warned of the ramifications of letting Yemen fight terrorism alone.
Many journalists covered the funeral of the murdered Minister, Pierre Gemayel, the latest victim in a string of political assassinations in Lebanon.
Doctors use the word “crisis” to describe the point at which a patient either starts to recover or dies. President George W. Bush’s Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point. Most commentators appear to think that Bush’s latest prescription – a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad – will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq. Yet as “Battle of Baghdad” begins, factors beyond Bush’s control and not of his making (at least not intentionally) may just save Iraq from its doom.