Awwal 05, 1432, April 09, 2011, SPA -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will chair a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo next week as part of efforts to coordinate the international response to the situation in Libya, a UN spokesman said Friday. The meeting at the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo on Thursday will be led by its Secretary General Amr Moussa and also be attended by other regional and international organizations. Jean Ping, chairman of the Commission of the African Union; Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Conference; and Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign affairs chief; will also attend, according to a report of the German Press Agency "DPA". "The objective of the meeting will be to exchange views and enhance coordination among the participating organizations in addressing the current crisis in Libya," spokesman Martin Nesirky said. B. Lynn Pascoe, the UN undersecretary for political affairs, and Abdul-Ilah Al-Khatib, the UN special envoy for Libya, will represent the United Nations at the first meeting of the Libya Contact Group in Doha on Tuesday. The meeting, to also be attended by the UN Development Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, will discuss the political and humanitarian response to Libya.
