The Arab parliamentary conference which will be held in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, will discuss a paper prepared by the Egyptian parliament on the role of Arab parliamentarians in combating terrorism, said local press reports.
The Egyptian working paper stresses the importance of intensifying Arab parliamentary efforts to work on holding an international conference to confront terrorism. A unified Arab stance should be formulated in this regard in order to be discussed during the next conference of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU), the Egyptians maintain.
The paper also calls for adopting an international political perspective or international understanding over the goals of international conference for combating terrorism.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called for holding such a conference as early as 1986.
International efforts should be wise and keen on preventing all sorts of terrorist attacks, the paper says, noting that the culprits should be punished and all efforts should be based on uprooting terrorism.
It also calls for realizing the difference between terrorism and resistance against foreign occupation including the right of self-determination and define international terrorism. (Albawaba.com)
