Palestinian National Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki said that the PA looks forward to the upcoming Arab Summit in Saudi Arabia, adopting the plan put forth by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for peace. All the preparations for the Arab summit, scheduled for April 14, are based on a pre-drafted solution for Palestine, Maliki according to Palestinian official agencies. The 28-page drafted was dubbed “Nusrat al-Quds” (Arabic for backing Jerusalem) by Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit. Maliki reiterated the vitality of the Arab body to aid Palestinian leadership and adopt at the summit Abbass new peace plan. A Palestinian delegation is expected to have arrived to Riyadh on Monday, following up preparatory meetings leading up to the official session bringing together Arab foreign ministers on Wednesday. The Arab summit will take place the following Sunday with Abbas’ attendance. Informed Palestinian sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that there were intensive contacts with Arab countries to back Abbas’ peace plan. “Adopting the plan gives a strong message of great Arab support, and a collective rejection of any transgressions against Jerusalem,” sources said. Abbas is said to have received great acceptance for his initiative, but found no translation on the ground. Sources stressed that the Palestinian President has long said he wants peace based on the Arab peace initiative. Presented to the United Nations Security Council last February, Abbass plan proposes convening an international peace conference mid-2018 aimed at forming a multilateral international mechanism that will help both sides, Israeli and Palestinian settle permanent status issues. The peace conference will work in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Oslo Agreement, especially over Jerusalem. During former negotiations, Abbas proposed that Israel brings to halt all unilateral actions, including settlements, and also requested an immediate freeze on the United States decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Abbas also hoped to stop the US embassy transfer of the US to Jerusalem. “We will go to the Arab summit, and we hope that it will be called (the Jerusalem summit) to confront this fierce attack launched after the American decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and transfer the embassy to it," Abbas said. Palestinian Authorities stressed its rejection of the so-called “Deal of the Century,” and any initiative possibly raised away form a new international mechanism, without first recognizing the two-state solution, and without recognizing East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders. No country has yet declared its willingness to act against the United States, but Russia has proposed a summit to bring Abbas together with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, something the latter has rejected.