Several world figures, including UN chief Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy envoy Javier Solana, attended the opening session with other high profile guests such as Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf; Shaikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, Chairperson of the UN General Assembly; Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and others. Shaikha Haya became the first woman to address the Arab Summit.
A correspondent for Israel's leading daily Yediot Aharonot is in Riyadh to cover the summit, the paper claimed yesterday. Orly Azulay, who has been Yediot's correspondent in Washington for many years, arrived in Saudi Arabia with other journalists accompanying the UN chief, it said.
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