Arab parliament discusses breaking Gaza siege

20 سبتمبر/أيلول 2011 الساعة . 12:47 ص   بتوقيت القدس

Ali Salem Al-Dakbasi, the chairman of the Arab parliamentary union, has said that the parliament’s session in the period September 18-21 would deliberate means of busting the Gaza blockade.

He said that the APU would also debate backing international recognition of a Palestine state on 1967 borders in addition to means of pressuring Israel into releasing Palestinian lawmakers held in its jails.

Dakbasi said in a press release on Saturday that the Arab parliamentarians would look into the Belgian Senate’s decision to recognize the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.