The Arab Environment Council concluded its 25th meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo with a package of resolutions and recommendations to address environmental challenges facing the Arab region. In its final communique, the council condemned the illegal Israeli practices that wreck havoc at environment in the occupied Palestinian territories. It asked Arab countries to provide Palestinian Authority with the required support to boost the potential of local environment protection agencies to counter the Israeli activities. The council assigned the Arab Atomic Energy Agency to study the grave impacts of the radioactive pollution of the Israeli Dimona nuclear reactor on the neighboring Arab territories. Furthermore, the conferees urged regional and international environment agencies to help Sudanese government deal with the worsening environmental situation in the western province of Darfur and other northern provinces. They agreed on holding a meeting, for the entities in charge of the Arab climate change plan of action, to mull finance and implementation of the plan's projects during the first half of 2014. --More 22:10 LOCAL TIME 19:10 GMT تغريد
