Qatar's Permanent Mission to the UN has declared that as President of the Security Council, it has ordered the Security Council to convent next month for an "open thematic debate at the Ministerial level on 'Sustainable Peace in the Middle East.'" The meeting will convene on December 7, the day after the Baker Commission report is released in Washington.
The main purpose of the meeting, according to Qatar, "would be to engage the Council in discussion on the most effective ways to guarantee the establishment of a lasting peace in that important region of the world, and the sustainability of that peace."
Qatar has invited Israeli FM Tzipi Livni to participate in the meeting, however, no representatives from the Palestinian Authority have been extended an invitation. Qatari Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser envisages "a presidential statement to be adopted at the meeting that expresses the points of view of the members of the Council on the steps to be taken in the coming stage to reach a settlement of that issue which has been sitting on the agenda of the Council for too many decades."
UPDATE 11/30 @ 13:07: For more on this issue, we refer you back to an important post we had last month that links up to a document outlining the Qatari agenda for next month.
UPDATE 12/01 @ 15:39: The proposed meeting has been moved to December 12.
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