almotamar.net - Yemen foreign minister Dr Abubakr al-Qirbi confirmed Tuesday the Arab foreign ministers committee entrusted by the Arab League will meet Wednesday in Cairo to discuss the Arab initiative for peace which the Arab leaders have affirmed their clinging to it in the Beirut and Riyadh summits.

Dr al-Qirbi told almotamar.net today the committee is composed of 12 Arab foreign ministers is to discuss in its meting tomorrow mechanisms of solving the Arab Israeli conflict according to the vision mentioned in the Arab initiative proposed by the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Beirut in 2002 and was later renewed in the Riyadh summit in late last March.

The minister made it clear that Yemen adheres to the Arab peace initiative and it will confirm it in the Cairo meeting. Yemen considers the initiative as a foundation for any solution to the Arab and Israeli conflict and refuses any modification of the bases offered in the initiative which includes the establishment of a Palestinian state within 1967 borders and its capital al-Quds and the Israeli withdrawal from the Syrian Golan Heights and Shabaa Farms.

The foreign minister has reiterated Yemen's confirmation on the importance of tackling the situation of the Palestinian refugees in Iraq and providing them with protection as well as offering assistance to the affected ones.

The Arab League had formed the foreign ministers committee composed of 12 Arab foreign ministers of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Bahrain, Syria, Jordan , Lebanon Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia, with the aim of activating the Arab peace initiate with the Zionist entity.