About 10 states will attend the summit of the Arab League in Baghdad, RIA Novosti reports.
The emir of Kuwait will make his first visit to Iraq in decades. Presidents of Lebanon, Mauritania, Sudan, Jibuti, Somalia will attend it as well. Head of the Libyan National Transitional Council Mustafa Abdul Jalil has arrived. Leaders of Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have arrived. Syria has not sent a delegation.
Politicians will discuss the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, situation in Sudan, economic problems, security and fight against terrorism.
Iraq hosts the LAS summit for the first time in 22 years. About 1,500 journalists of dozens of states will attend the talks. The Free Palestine Organization and 21 states make up the organization. It is headquartered in Cairo.
LAS foreign ministers and leaders meet annually. But the Arab Spring resulted in cancelling the summit in 2011. The previous session was held in Libya's Sirte in March 2010, where Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed in 2011.
Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh hosted the LAS economic summit in January 2011, chaired by President Hosni Mubarak.
