Arab African Summit Pledges Support for Presidency Council, Urges Parliament to Live up to its Obligations Tripoli, 24 November 2016(Lana) The 4th Arab African Summit has expressed its full support for the Presidency Council of and the Governmen

In the final communiqué issued at the end of sessions, the Summit urged the House of Representatives to live up to its obligations, in accordance with the political agreement. Final documents were ratified at the end of the summit which was held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. They included the Malabo Declaration, a Declaration on Palestine as well as the decisions of the 4th Arab African Summit. The Summit discussed a number of draft documents and reports forwarded by the Arab League and the African Union, and adopted a separate key declaration on Arab-African solidarity with the Palestinian people's unalienable rights. The Summit also discussed a joint report by the Secretary General of the Arab League and the Chairwoman of the African Commission, on cooperation between the two sides in the last three years following the Kuwait Summit in 2013, as well as an opinion on tackling the challenges facing an upgrade of joint Arab African cooperation. =Lana=