Salam Heads Delegation to Arab Summit Next Week

Prime Minister Tammam Salam will travel over the weekend to Mauritania to take part in the Arab Summit which is set to begin early next week, al-Liwaa daily reported on Wednesday.

At the summit, which will be held on July 26 and 27, Salam is expected to deliver a speech that will touch on the latest developments mainly the difficulties and problems experienced in the region.

Salam will travel on Sunday on head of a delegation comprised of Ministers of Finance Ali Hassan Khalil, Foreign Jebran Bassil, Health Wael Abou Faour and Social Affairs Rashid Derbas.

The daily added that the delegation will land in Morocco first before heading to Mauritania Monday morning where it will spend one day.

Mauritania is going to host the 27th annual Arab Summit meeting after Morocco apologized for hosting it.

The host country for the annual Arab Summit is usually decided upon by alphabetical order of member countries.

Egypt has hosted the event in 2015.

The talks are expected to shed light on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Libya, Iraq and Palestine, reports said.