Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Tuesday that an upcoming Arab summit due in the Saudi capital Riyadh on March 28-29 would discuss a string of regional issues, including the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Iraqi issue, Egypt's MENA news agency reported.

Moussa made the remarks after a meeting with Arab nations' permanent delegates to the Cairo-based AL on the outcome of his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in southern Egypt on Monday.

Moussa called on the international community not to stand idly on the situation in Iraq, but rather support Arab reconciliation efforts in the violence-ravaged country.

The partitioning of Iraq is a red-line and it is important to realize national reconciliation in Iraq, said Moussa, adding that the Iraqi identity should be based on the citizenship.

The pan-Arab forum has been trying to help the Iraqis hold a national reconciliation conference since early 2006, but such efforts have failed to produce significant results as the conference has been postponed several times.

Earlier, Moussa's spokesman Alaa Rushdi said that Moussa will visit Libya on Wednesday for talks with Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi on the Arab summit in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia's delegate to the league Ahmed al-Qatan told reporters on Tuesday that Riyadh would hold the 19th Arab summit on March 28-29.

Saudi Arabia had originally refused to host the annual summit, which forced the league to change the venue to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Source: Xinhua