Cairo  - Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said Wednesday that Arab countries have their doubts about the proposed Euro-Mediterranean Unionand will continue talks on the project.

The union, proposed by France and endorsed by the European Union, would boost political and trade ties as well as security cooperation between the EU and its neighbours on the southern coast of the Mediterranean.

Mussa said that both the Arab vision and the European vision for this union will be discussed at the talks ahead of the planned launch in paris on July 13.

"During the upcoming period until July 13, there will be constant talks between the Arab and European sides, either between foreign ministers or experts," Mussa told reporters in the Egyptian capital.

On Tuesday, the presidents of Libya, Syria, Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania sought to adopt a common stance on the union at a mini- summit held in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

At the meeting, Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi described the union as an "insult" to Arabs and Africans and said the economic cooperation in it was nothing more than "bait" to attract Arabs with.

Arab countries fear that joining the union would mean normalizing ties with Israel, which still occupies Palestinian and Syrian land.

Both Syria and the Palestinian Authority would be members of the union. Egypt is the only Arab Mediterranean country with full diplomatic ties with Israel. (dpa)