WRAP Closing day of Beirut summit, pressers, resolution

Описание: (28 Mar 2002)
1. Wide of Arab League summit
2. Deputy Iraqi president and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah embrace and kiss on entering the summit
3. Palestinian delegations (Farouk Qadoumi) entering the summit with Lebanese delegation and kissing
4. Various delegates clapping
5. Various delegates
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Farouk Qadoumi, Palestinian delegate:
"150 tanks are putting the city of Ramallah under siege today, asking all foreign delegations to leave the city for safety reasons. Chairman Arafat expects that the Israeli army will lead a huge attack demanding from the Arab summit a unified position."
7. Various of conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sheikh Sabah Salem Soubah, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister:
" We are happy with the resolution. (Question: What are the latest developments?) Yes I think there is a progress. (Question: Have you had direct talks with Izzat Ibrahim (Iraqi delegate)?) No, no direct talks."
9. Cutaway hotel entrance
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Minister of Planning:
"There is going to be a proclamation from this conference to stand against the imminent invasion and devastation to the killing by the Israeli army of hundred of Palestinians, I think it is very threatening and very obvious what the Israelis are doing around Ramallah."
11. Cutaway conference
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Prince Saud al Faisal, Saudi foreign Minister:
"Bloodshed has to stop. The Israeli people have a right to live in peace, if they respond to the conditions of peace. Netanya there are losses we do not condone, but there are Arabs and Palestinians everywhere, in Ramallah, in all the cities and villages of Palestine. Where do you stop? If I mention one death, do I mention other death there. Blood only brings blood. The Old Testament says so. So my call to the Israeli people is the same call that His Royal Highness has said to them today. That if you want genuine peace, you must respond in kind. Genuine peace will not come out of the muzzles of guns, they will come from the hearts and minds. I hope the people of Israel who are interested in the security of their children will see to it that this peace initiative is responded to in kind. And for Israel to gamble once, in fifty years they have gambled in intimidation, in war and violence, let them gamble on peace once."
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary-General:
"This is the position taken by the Arab countries. We are going to support that, we are going to stand with you, that is the message we got from the United States all through the recent weeks prior to the summit. So we expect the support to be expressed clearly, and that we shall work together to move things along those lines, with the final destination to be just peace, the just peace. The initiative as you have heard, calls on Israel to take certain specific steps, and we pledge to take other steps in order for the peace deal to be properly packaged ."
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13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Prince Saud al Faisal, Saudi foreign Minister:
"If Israel refuses then the Peace Process will not go on. This is it, then we will return to the violence we return towards the pushing of the precipice, the Middle East, we return to the widening of the conflict. we return to all the instabilities that God forbid will happen."
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary-General:
15. Press conference
STORYLINE:
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is deputy chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council.

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