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Beshir had urged Arab leaders to reject his indictment on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and lashed out at the UN Security Council, accusing it of applying "double standards."
"We stress our solidarity with Sudan and our rejection of the ICC decision against President Omar al-Beshir," the leaders said in their final statement, as read out by Arab League chief Amr Mussa.
As the two-day gathering was cut short and wound up in a single day, the Qatari hosts announced that Libya would host next year's summit instead of Iraq, which declined its turn on the grounds of logistical problems.
The start of the summit was overshadowed by Kadhafi's tirade against Abdullah, evoking a fiery exchange at a 2003 summit between the leaders of the two oil-producing states.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani later brought Kadhafi and King Abdullah together for a meeting which cleared the air, according to senior Libyan official Ahmad Kadaf al-Dam.
There was no official Saudi word on the outcome.
Beshir already had the solidarity of Arab countries which have repeatedly denounced the arrest warrant issued on March 4 by the ICC over alleged war crimes in the vast Darfur region of western Sudan.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in his address to the summit, echoed calls to support Beshir against the ICC.
"We are called upon today, not (just) to criticise the warrant (which) ... we are all agreed is politicised, but to reject it categorically," said the Syrian leader.
Beshir was on his fourth trip abroad in defiance of the ICC indictment.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who attended the summit opening despite the presence of Beshir, called on Khartoum to reverse its decision to expel 13 aid groups from war-battered Darfur, a measure taken in response to the ICC warrant.
But Beshir instead accused the Security Council of being "undemocratic" and called for the 15-member body to be reformed.
"How could the Security Council referral of the Darfur issue to the so-called ICC be justified while ... America exempts its civilians and military personnel worldwide from the jurisdiction of this court?" he asked.
Assad, meanwhile, said Arab countries do not have a partner in efforts to achieve peace with the Jewish state.
"We Arabs, since we offered the Arab initiative, do not have a real partner in the peace process," he said. "This (incoming) government ... shows that this (Israeli) society is not ready for peace."
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu finalised his right-wing government on Monday, a day before presenting it to parliament.
The Saudi-inspired Arab peace initiative, on the table since 2002, offers the Jewish state full normalisation of ties in return for its withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.
In their final statement, the leaders stressed the need to lay down "a precise time-limit" for Israel to honour its commitments, without fixing any date. Assad earlier reiterated calls to "suspend" the Arab offer.
Arab states were aiming at the summit to close ranks, split largely over how to respond to Israel's 22-day military onslaught against the Gaza Strip and amid the growing regional influence of Shiite Iran.
But Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, whose country is the largest Arab nation in terms of population and is a major regional powerhouse, decided to shun the summit amid strained ties with Qatar.
The heads of state of Algeria, Iraq, Morocco and Oman also stayed away.
Cairo and Riyadh are staunch supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, while Damascus and Doha back the Islamist movement Hamas which routed Abbas's Fatah loyalists from Gaza in deadly factional fighting in June 2007.
On Tuesday, representatives of the 22-member Arab League and 12 South American countries will seek a further boost in ties when they hold their second inter-regional summit in Doha.
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"We stress our solidarity with Sudan and our rejection of the ICC decision against President Omar al-Beshir," the leaders said in their final statement, as read out by Arab League chief Amr Mussa.
As the two-day gathering was cut short and wound up in a single day, the Qatari hosts announced that Libya would host next year's summit instead of Iraq, which declined its turn on the grounds of logistical problems.
The start of the summit was overshadowed by Kadhafi's tirade against Abdullah, evoking a fiery exchange at a 2003 summit between the leaders of the two oil-producing states.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani later brought Kadhafi and King Abdullah together for a meeting which cleared the air, according to senior Libyan official Ahmad Kadaf al-Dam.
There was no official Saudi word on the outcome.
Beshir already had the solidarity of Arab countries which have repeatedly denounced the arrest warrant issued on March 4 by the ICC over alleged war crimes in the vast Darfur region of western Sudan.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, in his address to the summit, echoed calls to support Beshir against the ICC.
"We are called upon today, not (just) to criticise the warrant (which) ... we are all agreed is politicised, but to reject it categorically," said the Syrian leader.
Beshir was on his fourth trip abroad in defiance of the ICC indictment.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who attended the summit opening despite the presence of Beshir, called on Khartoum to reverse its decision to expel 13 aid groups from war-battered Darfur, a measure taken in response to the ICC warrant.
But Beshir instead accused the Security Council of being "undemocratic" and called for the 15-member body to be reformed.
"How could the Security Council referral of the Darfur issue to the so-called ICC be justified while ... America exempts its civilians and military personnel worldwide from the jurisdiction of this court?" he asked.
Assad, meanwhile, said Arab countries do not have a partner in efforts to achieve peace with the Jewish state.
"We Arabs, since we offered the Arab initiative, do not have a real partner in the peace process," he said. "This (incoming) government ... shows that this (Israeli) society is not ready for peace."
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu finalised his right-wing government on Monday, a day before presenting it to parliament.
The Saudi-inspired Arab peace initiative, on the table since 2002, offers the Jewish state full normalisation of ties in return for its withdrawal from occupied Arab lands.
In their final statement, the leaders stressed the need to lay down "a precise time-limit" for Israel to honour its commitments, without fixing any date. Assad earlier reiterated calls to "suspend" the Arab offer.
Arab states were aiming at the summit to close ranks, split largely over how to respond to Israel's 22-day military onslaught against the Gaza Strip and amid the growing regional influence of Shiite Iran.
But Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, whose country is the largest Arab nation in terms of population and is a major regional powerhouse, decided to shun the summit amid strained ties with Qatar.
The heads of state of Algeria, Iraq, Morocco and Oman also stayed away.
Cairo and Riyadh are staunch supporters of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, while Damascus and Doha back the Islamist movement Hamas which routed Abbas's Fatah loyalists from Gaza in deadly factional fighting in June 2007.
On Tuesday, representatives of the 22-member Arab League and 12 South American countries will seek a further boost in ties when they hold their second inter-regional summit in Doha.
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Image from www.fettan.com.
