Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said that Israel's proposal for a Middle East peace conference only aimed to deflect attention from its military actions, his office reported.
The Israeli proposal falls into the category of "public relations rather than serious work," Mussa told journalists.
The proposal seeks to draw attention away from Israel's "aggressive" practices and its "systematic violation" of all humanitarian norms and conventions, Mussa charged.
According to AFP, Mussa denounced Sharon as "the self-proclaimed referee" who decides who attends the conference, complaining he had excluded Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the European Union.
Before proposing conferences, he said, the Israeli government should start first by implementing an immediate pullout from the Palestinian territories and lift the siege on the Palestinian people and Arafat.
Mussa conveyed that, based on his contacts, Arab foreign ministers had "suspicions concerning the intentions of the Israeli government," believing it "seeks to waste time."
(Albawaba.com)
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