• Mediterranean Union to name Arab head: Spain
  05 January 2010, 15:42 CET
  
  
  (MADRID) - The nascent Mediterranean Union is "very close" to naming its first secretary general, who will be from an Arab country, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Tuesday.
  He was speaking at a news conference in Madrid before leaving for Cairo to attend a meeting of representatives of member states.
  The Mediterranean Union "is very close to naming its secretary general," who will be a representative of an Arab country, Moratinos said.
  He said an announcement, which could come as soon as Tuesday evening, would allow the Union to prepare for its second planned summit, scheduled for Barcelona in June as part of Spain's six-month EU presidency.
  Launched at a Paris summit in July 2008, the Mediterranean Union groups EU member states with countries in North Africa, the Balkans, the Arab world as well as Israel in a bid to foster cooperation in one of the world's most volatile regions.
  But the project was the victim of the 22-day war in the Gaza Strip that ended on January 18 last year as Arab countries have refused to sit next to Israel.
  France announced last month that the foreign ministers of Egypt, France, Jordan, Spain and Tunisia would meet in early January in Cairo to try to revive the grouping.
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  Our prophetic prospective: the polarization of European and Middle Eastern countries will one day open the door for the kingdom that will dominate the entire world. In Daniel 2 we read: " And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others. 41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile. 43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. 44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed" Iron refers to the Roman Empire and clay to another empire, could this be the mixing of a partly Roman, partly Middle Eastern empire?, a revived Caliphate? a mix of different races and cultures?. We know the desire for collaboration is already there, time will tell, I guess we shall see...

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