Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has urged the Republic of Panama to recognize the independent Palestinian state, based on the June 4, 1967, lines and with East Jerusalem as its capital. At a meeting Aboul Gheit had with Minister of Foreign Relations of the Republic of Panama Javier Martinez-Acha Vasquez on the sidelines of the high-level meeting of the 79th UN General Assembly in New York, he expressed appreciation for Panama's supportive position at the UN, the latest of which was the vote, last May, in favor of the General Assembly resolution on the eligibility of the state of Palestine to full membership in the UN. Source: Saudi Press Agency