So, the Arab Summit will be taking place this weekend in Tunis.
Tunis is looking ever so beautiful. The flags of the Arab countries are flapping on every major street, trees have been trimmed, grass has been cut, beautiful flowers are everywhere, and all is perfect.
Security is high and tight already and a big part of downtown Tunis around the location of the summit will be totally sealed off starting this afternoon.
I’m curious to see what Arab leaders will come out with after this summit. There’s a lot of talk about reform of the Arab league and of the Arab countries, human rights, woman’s rights and more which is very interesting, but I’m not sure there can be one formula that fits for all Arab countries.
Whatever they come out with, I just hope this summit won’t be a failure and a dissapointment to the Arab people as all the previous summits were.
Tunisia wants to make this summit a successful and useful one and that gives me some hope.
As long as it doesn’t result in just another meaningless promise to fight terrorism. There have been so many of those coming out of Arab summits and GCC meetings lately, all of which are perfectly well-intentioned, but which seem to amount to very little in the end. Moving forward on economic cooperation would be much more effective, in my opinion, would fight the terrorism problem at its roots and would reduce the region’s dependence on oil revenues and Western cash.
I agree that economic cooperation should be a major issue that they should truly focus on.
That alone would solve a bunch of problems the Arab world faces.
Through economic cooperation and cross investment, the Arab world could truly become self sufficient and cut their dependency on the west in so many things.
I’m not sure if you mean it’ll fight terrorism by attacking poverty and all. Because if that’s what you mean, I don’t really agree.
I think the reasons behind what happens to be called terrorism are mostly political.
And even though I too think economic cooperation will shrink it, it’s not because there’s less poverty, it’ll be because the Arab world will be less dependant on the west and won’t be as vulnerable as it is now for abuse.