The Arab League (AL) foreign ministerial council session is scheduled to open in Cairo on Sunday to discuss a number of draft resolutions covering issues related to developments in the Middle East, a senior AL official said on Friday.

In a statement, Mohamed Sobeih, the AL Assistant Secretary General for Palestinian and Occupied Arab Territories Affairs, said the AL Council session at the permanent delegates level on Thursday adopted nine draft resolutions to cover several issues, including Jerusalem, the refugees, the Israeli separation wall, financial aid to the Palestinian Authority and settlements, as well as situation in the Israeli-held Syrian Golan Heights and southern Lebanon.

Arab and Islamic groups have teamed up on the issue of saving Jerusalem in light of the fierce Israeli onslaught on al-Aqsa Mosque and the continuing siege slammed on the Palestinian people,according to Sobeih.

He underlined the importance of resolutions to be adopted by the upcoming Arab summit in Riyadh in late March, in terms of crystallizing a unified Arab stand on a definitive timetable for resuming the Mideast peace process.

The AL Council session at the permanent delegates level also adopted draft resolutions on forming the Arab peace and security council agenda and developing Arab nuclear capabilities for peaceful uses till 2020 referred to the coming Arab foreign ministerial council meeting.

The Arab Foreign Ministerial Council will also probe Arab ties with Europe, China, Turkey and Latin America and call for activating the Arab presence in Africa.

AL Secretary General Amr Moussa will attend the meeting to be held under Tunisian Foreign Affairs Minister Abdelwaheb Abdallah.

(Xinhua News Agency March 3, 2007)