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Tunis Declaration Counts on Arab Solidarity Against Interventions

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz during a meeting with Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz during a meeting with Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed
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Tunis Declaration Counts on Arab Solidarity Against Interventions

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz during a meeting with Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz during a meeting with Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed

The 30th Arab League Summit, slated for Sunday in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, will be under the title "Summit of Unification of Vision and Speech", with the need to address the US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan occupied territory figuring high on the meeting’s agenda.

Other Arab world hot topics, such as Syria, the Iranian expansionist agenda, and Turkish interventions in Iraq will also be tackled. Tunisia, which takes over this year from Saudi Arabia in hosting the summit, will coordinate with the leaders of 12 Arab countries in responding to some of the most pressing challenges facing the Arab world today.

Among the attending leaders are Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, in addition to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Arab leaders will also seek to ratify the draft "Tunis Declaration", presented to them by the Arab foreign ministers, which reaffirms the importance of promoting joint Arab action.

At their preparatory meeting earlier on Friday, Arab foreign ministers approved draft resolutions prepared by permanent delegates and senior officials, together with decisions of the Economic and Social Council, which will be presented in the Arab League meeting tomorrow at the Summit Level.

The draft resolutions contain about 21 items, which focus on the latest political developments of the Palestinian issue and the Arab-Israeli conflict, activating the Arab peace initiative and developments in the Syrian crisis, the occupied Syrian Arab Golan, the situation in Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and Lebanon.

The draft resolutions dealt with supporting the Arab ecosystem to counter terrorism and developing the League of Arab States—it is worth noting that draft resolutions were referred from the preparatory Economic and Social Council for the 30th Arab Summit.

The Arab League Summit will stress the importance of a comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East as a strategy embodied by the Arab peace initiative, which was adopted by all Arab countries at the Beirut summit in 2002.

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Tunisians Vote in Election, with Main Rival to Saied in Prison

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
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Tunisians Vote in Election, with Main Rival to Saied in Prison

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi
A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia October 6, 2024. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi

Tunisians began voting on Sunday in an election in which President Kais Saied is seeking a second term, with his main rival suddenly jailed last month and the other candidate heading a minor political party.
Sunday's election pits Saied against two rivals: his former ally turned critic, Chaab Party leader Zouhair Maghzaoui, and Ayachi Zammel, who had been seen as posing a big threat to Saied until he was jailed last month.
Senior figures from the biggest parties, which largely oppose Saied, have been imprisoned on various charges over the past year and those parties have not publicly backed any of the three candidates on Sunday's ballot. Other opponents have been barred from running.
Polls close at 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) and results are expected in the next two days. Political tensions have risen since an electoral commission named by Saied disqualified three prominent candidates last month, amid protests by opposition and civil society groups. Lawmakers loyal to Saied then approved a law last week stripping the administrative court of authority over election disputes. This Court is widely seen as the country's last independent judicial body, after Saied dissolved the Supreme Judicial Council and dismissed dozens of judges in 2022.
Saied, elected in 2019, seized most powers in 2021 when he dissolved the elected parliament and rewrote the constitution, a move the opposition described as a coup.