Jordan not notified of Moroccan king's absence: Source

By Laith al-Junaidi

DEAD SEA, Jordan (AA) – Jordan has not received any official notification about cancelling the participation of Moroccan King Mohamed VI in the Arab summit, a high-level Jordanian government source said Wednesday.

The one-day summit opened in the Dead Sea in Jordan earlier on Wednesday with the participation of 18 Arab leaders.

The Moroccan monarch, however, has failed to show up for the summit for unannounced reasons.

Conflicts in several Arab countries are expected to figure high on the agenda of the summit, particularly the situation in Syria, Yemen and Libya as well as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Jordan is hosting the summit after Yemen refused to host it due to the conflict in the country, which fell into civil war in 2014 after Houthi rebels overran capital Sanaa and other provinces.

The last Arab summit was held in Mauritania last year.