Amman - Seven Arab foreign ministers and the Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa are to meet in Amman on Saturday to discuss the future Arab strategy for peace negotiations with Israel, officials said Friday. The meeting has added significance as it falls just ahead of a planned trip to Washington by Jordan's King Abdullah II, who is expected to relay the Arab vision on the peace process with Israel to the US President Barack Obama.

Doha  - Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa knows the new Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, well.

In the 1990s, Mussa was Egypt's foreign minister when Netanyahu was Israel's prime minister. And while the two men share a taste for fine Cuban cigars and other small indulgences, and though the countries they represented in the 1990s had been at peace for more than a decade, the two were often at odds on politics.

Little has changed today.

Doha  - Leaders at an Arab League summit in Qatar on Monday were unanimous in their appeals for Arab unity - but that message was almost lost amid high-profile disputes between member states and the sensational appearance of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir despite an international warrant for his arrest.

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mussa, delivering the summit's conclusions, affirmed the 22-member body's support for al-Bashir in his confrontation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN Security Council.

Doha - Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mussa on Monday formally expressed the body's support for Sudanese President Omar al- Bashir in his confrontation with the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council.

In his final remarks Monday night, al-Bashir thanked the assembled Arab leaders for their support against "the court's unjust decision."

"We will spare no effort in establishing peace and security in every corner of Sudan," al-Bashir added.

Baghdad - When Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa visited US-controlled Iraq for the first time in 2005, most of the talk was about "not giving up on Iraq as an Arab country."

At that time, many Sunni Arab countries, particularly those allied with the United States, feared a disintegrating Iraq - with its majority Shiite population - would fall under the shadow of an interventionist, revolutionary Shiite Iran, and that the Arab world would be powerless to prevent it.

Baghdad  - Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa on Tuesday said he sees a "prosperous future" for Iraq.

"I feel that there is a big difference in the country since my last visit and the policy of reconciliation has led to increasingly stability," Mussa said.

He was speaking at a press conference in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, held jointly with Iraqi Prime Minsiter Nuri al-Maliki.

"Hope has emerged for a prosperous future," Mussa added.