April 10, 2010The Arab League warns neighboring countries from interfering in the Iraqi issue
After the positions that were not beyond condemnation and denunciation
القاهرة – اسراء خليفة Cairo - Lo-Khalifa
The Arab League warned all the neighboring countries from interfering in the Iraqi issue, calling for support of the country's security and stability.
This is the first warning of its kind, they were the previous positions are purely condemnation and denunciation.
The Council of Arab and international relations of the League of Arab States yesterday, held an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Iraq.
Mohammed Jassem al-Saqr President of the Council said in a press conference at the conclusion of the meeting: «We met to discuss the situation in Iraq and the consequences of serious security recently, especially bombings, Bloody Tuesday, which killed a number of innocent citizens. Participated in the meeting the Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa and Ahmed Maher, Minister of Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Fouad Siniora of Lebanon's former Prime Minister, in addition to a number of leading Arab political figures.
He falcon that the duty of the Arab League and the Council must stand with Iraq until the government is formed next, pointing out that the university want to be a new government based on a national basis and does not seek to entrench sectarianism and to be their approach based on national reconciliation with all shades the Iraqi people.
He Falcon: The this emergency meeting on the situation in Iraq was at length has been expanded on the situation in Iraq by all political parties combined, which represent most Arab countries has been the focus of the meeting the importance of be aware of the neighboring countries should not interfere in Iraq's internal affairs and leave the Iraqis themselves the task of forming the government, the Iraqi people went and elected a more aware than the others in his cabinet, demanding to raise Iraq's neighboring countries out of Iraq and not interfere in their affairs and seek stability.
It is said that the Council of Arab and international relations formed recently in Kuwait and aims to build balanced relations with all Arab parties and Arab world.
In addition, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the plenary meeting 27 of the panel of experts and representatives of Arab countries to coordinate Arab stances on international conferences and conventions with the representatives of Arab countries from the ministries of justice and foreign Arabs in order to develop the Arab vision of the issues to be presented to the Review Conference of the Statute of the International Criminal Court which will be held in the Ugandan capital Kampala on 31 next June is the definition of the crime of aggression and evaluating the performance of the Court and the Belgian proposal and to consider the repeal of article 124 of the Statute of the Court.
Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ghassan al-Hindawi said in an exclusive statement Sabah after the conclusion of the meeting, which lasted two days that the representatives of Arab countries agreed that the mandate of the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, not the UN Security Council, so do not use the five permanent members with veto rights to prevent international justice to say his speech at the grave violations of human rights.
And the position of Iraq from the criminal court, Hindawi said: The Iraq did not approve of this court because it was double standards, and attitudes towards Arab issues is not good, as it issued a ruling on the President of Sudan and at the same time to do nothing against Israel and the crimes committed against humanity in Palestine and Gaza in particular, so, Iraq had had reservations about the Court and considered by the politicized Entities controlled by the UN Security Council.
On the subject of Iraq, accusing the neighboring countries in the infiltration of terrorists and the need to internationalize this issue, Hindawi said: we did not go to this topic meeting, but we looked at the Criminal Court and its laws.
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