Aoun in Cairo for Arab summit, talks with leaders

President Joseph Aoun took part Tuesday in Cairo in the opening session of an extraordinary Arab summit on the Palestinian cause.

Aoun also held meetings on the summit's sidelines with U.N. chief Antonio Guterres, Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit, Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and Rashad al-Alimi, the chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council.

Guterres called for respecting Lebanon's territorial integrity, stressing that UNIFIL peacekeepers should be the only foreign forces in south Lebanon.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji, who is accompanying Aoun, meanwhile discussed the Lebanese-Syrian relations with his Syrian counterpart Asaad Shibani.