NNA - The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, on Friday arrived at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut at the head of an accompanying delegation. 

Welcoming him at the airport were Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Abdullah Bou Habib, Arab League ambassador to Lebanon, Abdel Rahman Al-Solh, Lebanon's delegate to the Arab League, Ali Al-Halabi, and Deputy Director of Protocols at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Consul Salam Al-Ashkar.

Upon his arrival at the airport’s Salon of Honor, Aboul Gheit expressed hope that the consultative meeting of Arab foreign ministers would achieve the aspired outcome and that future steps would be agreed upon.
 

==========R.H.