VOL. XLVII

No 14

05-April-2004

The Political Scene (5 April 2004)

The Tunisians have unilaterally postponed the summit they were scheduled to host on 29 March

Tunis Summit Postponed Indefinitely

Arab summits usually manage to paper over differences between the participants with communiqués of anodyne blandness. So when the Tunisians, without consulting anyone else, on 27 March indefinitely postponed the summit which was scheduled to be held in Tunis on 29 March, it could only be taken to mean that...