51.   The summit was convened amid Arab fears that the new rightwing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attempting to re-write the terms of the peace process.

52.   The summit was hastily convened after peace architect Shimon Peres was narrowly defeated last month by his right-wing challenger Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli polls.

53.   The summit has been convened amid Arab fears for the prospects for Middle East peace, after the victory of right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli elections.

54.   They however left him a letter from OAU secretray-general Salim Ahmed Salim asking him to convene the summit.

55.   King Hassan II of Morocco would convene the summit as chairman of the Jerusalem committee of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.

56.   Kremlin spokesman Sergei Medvedev said Shevardnadze asked President Boris Yeltsin, who chairs the CIS leadership council, to convene the summit.

57.   Officials said the summit was convened to bolster inter-Arab ties, the role of the Arab League and the position of Syria in peace talks with Israel.

58.   Sources in the Ghanaian capital Accra stated that ECOWAS may convene a summit on Liberia.

59.   The crisis led Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa to convene a summit among leaders of countries militarily embroiled in the conflict.