Saudi editorial views regional activity, tension, worries on eve of Arab summit.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report by Saudi newspaper Al-Jazirah website on 6 March

[Unattributed editorial: "On the Road to the Summit"]

The region is witnessing intensive diplomatic and political activity which will be crowned at the end of the month with the Riyadh Arab summit where many of the current efforts could end, or they could take their final shape with the beginning of the summit. Such activity reflects a strong determination to confront the exacerbating difficulties. The Arab ministerial meeting in Cairo on Sunday 4 March 2007 concluded that it is necessary to hold on to the Arab peace initiative as it is, and …