Egypt Offers to Host Summit

[demdave]

TUNIS, 29 March 2004 — Egypt offered yesterday to host an Arab summit after Tunisia stunned the Arab world with a unilateral decision to scrap the meeting on its soil, citing the reluctance of some countries to embrace democratic reform.


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The Tunisian government news agency said Tunisia had insisted that the summit explicitly endorse democracy and reject what it called “extremism, fanaticism, violence and terrorism” — and that other countries had balked at this.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=42118&d=29&m=3&y=2004