The two Arab leaders looked into means of coming up with a "unified Arab approach on common issues and challenges due to be drawn on the agenda of the Arab summit," a royal court statement said.
Abdallah and Al-Thani, who also doubles as Qatar's foreign minister, reviewed "efforts under way to remove obstacles facing the Middle East peace process and resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in accordance with the two-state vision," the statement added.
Qatar, current chairman of the Arab summit, is reportedly trying to remove obstacles hindering Arab consensus on key issues, foremost the relaunching of serious negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and the reconciliation of feuding Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.
One of the issues expected to be high on the agenda is Israel's persistent settlement activity, particularly in East Jerusalem. The Zionist state is widely believed to be carrying out relentless effort to judaize the Arab part of the holy city, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war
