CAIRO – The Arab League said on Saturday it was important that a March summit goes ahead in Baghdad due to what it described as “the grave, fateful developments” in the Arab world. Libya, which holds the rotating presidency of the Arab leaders’ summit, said this week that the Baghdad meeting would be postponed because of the situation in the region, where protests are challenging leaders from Bahrain to Algeria.
The presidents of Egypt and Tunisia have been toppled by mass protests this year. A statement issued from the Arab League headquarters in Cairo said a formal request for the postponement of the summit had yet to be received by the body’s general secretariat.
