
 CAIRO, Jun 24, 2009- Arab states will rejoin the Mediterranean Union  which has been frozen since the Gaza war in December-January, an Arab League  official said Wednesday, despite reservations about sitting down with Israel. "The whole Arab group will participate in the next meetings. We will not be  the ones to block the process," Mohammed al-Nasseri, who heads the Euro-Arab  cooperation department at the Arab League, told AFP. He said Arab members, which include the Palestinians, would attend the July 7  meeting in Brussels to formally announce the 43-member union's relaunch. The Arab members will first attend a Euro-Mediterranean ministerial meeting  in Paris on Thursday on sustainable development, Nasseri said. Launched at a Paris summit in July, the Union groups EU member states with  countries in North Africa, the Balkans, Arab world as well as Israel in a bid to  foster cooperation in one of the world's most volatile regions. But the project has been the victim of Israel's onslaught against the  Palestinian Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza that ended on January 18 as Arab  countries refused to sit next to Israel.