18-02-2011
Arab League summit confirms Baghdad on 29 March next
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Denied the League of Arab States, on Friday, put on hold the next summit in Baghdad at the end of next March because of the turmoil in the Arab world as declared by Libya, which holds the rotating presidency.
He said the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa, said "the League Secretariat has not received any formal request to change the date of the Arab summit," noting that "this decision should be taken collectively by all Member States."
The News Agency of Libya, which holds the rotating presidency of the League of Arab States said on Friday that the presidency decided to postpone the Arab summit scheduled to be held next 23 of 29 next March in the Iraqi capital Baghdad because of the turmoil in the Arab world.
Saw the Arab Republic of Egypt demonstrations swept the country, since 25 of the last month, in an unprecedented way, inspired by the tens of thousands of demonstrators events of the revolution of Tunisia that overthrew the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and resulted in the Egyptian revolution on the departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who exposed years ago to criticism because of the emergency law to keep it for more than thirty years, the law declared in 1981 after the Islamists assassinated President Anwar Sadat.
The Minister of State and government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh announced that, earlier in the day, that the Arab position and the Arab situation calls for the necessity of holding an Arab summit in time and place specified.
The League of Arab States emphasized, the eighth of February, the Arab summit next regular session in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on 29 and 30 of the next month, denying postpone the summit until the end of the crises experienced by some Arab countries, unveiled an Arab diplomatic source that the delegates Arab League recently held a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo, in the presence of high-level representative from the Arab League to consult on the summit.
It is scheduled to host Iraq's Arab summit which brings together presidents and kings of the Member States of the Arab League, the event is the largest international, organized by the country since 2003, where it formed a secretariat of Baghdad, a committee to create and secure the special requirements of the Conference of the Arab Summit and to provide visions and ideas and the preparations required for the improvement and development of the interface construction of the city Baghdad, commensurate with its history and its place in coordination with the ministries and the competent authorities.
And Iraq participated in the Arab summit twenty-second session held in Sirte in Libya late last March of last year, 2010, at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing Iraq minister Hoshyar Zebari, and discussed the most prominent Arab issues, including the Palestinian issue, and the draft statute of the Iraqi parliament, in the absence of Lebanon to participate at a high level after the announcement of the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, for lack of personal involvement, against the backdrop of uncertainty surrounding the Libyan role in the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr.
It is noteworthy that Iraq has hosted the Arab summit twice, in convening the Arab summit, the ninth in 1978 and to decide which province companies and institutions operating in Egypt that deal directly with Israel and disapproval of the Camp David, as well as the convening of the summit of the 12 in 1990, which saw severe tensions between Iraq and Kuwait and the UAE and the United Arab erupted evacuated the first Gulf War.
Arab League summit confirms Baghdad on 29 March next
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Denied the League of Arab States, on Friday, put on hold the next summit in Baghdad at the end of next March because of the turmoil in the Arab world as declared by Libya, which holds the rotating presidency.
He said the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa, said "the League Secretariat has not received any formal request to change the date of the Arab summit," noting that "this decision should be taken collectively by all Member States."
The News Agency of Libya, which holds the rotating presidency of the League of Arab States said on Friday that the presidency decided to postpone the Arab summit scheduled to be held next 23 of 29 next March in the Iraqi capital Baghdad because of the turmoil in the Arab world.
Saw the Arab Republic of Egypt demonstrations swept the country, since 25 of the last month, in an unprecedented way, inspired by the tens of thousands of demonstrators events of the revolution of Tunisia that overthrew the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and resulted in the Egyptian revolution on the departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who exposed years ago to criticism because of the emergency law to keep it for more than thirty years, the law declared in 1981 after the Islamists assassinated President Anwar Sadat.
The Minister of State and government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh announced that, earlier in the day, that the Arab position and the Arab situation calls for the necessity of holding an Arab summit in time and place specified.
The League of Arab States emphasized, the eighth of February, the Arab summit next regular session in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on 29 and 30 of the next month, denying postpone the summit until the end of the crises experienced by some Arab countries, unveiled an Arab diplomatic source that the delegates Arab League recently held a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo, in the presence of high-level representative from the Arab League to consult on the summit.
It is scheduled to host Iraq's Arab summit which brings together presidents and kings of the Member States of the Arab League, the event is the largest international, organized by the country since 2003, where it formed a secretariat of Baghdad, a committee to create and secure the special requirements of the Conference of the Arab Summit and to provide visions and ideas and the preparations required for the improvement and development of the interface construction of the city Baghdad, commensurate with its history and its place in coordination with the ministries and the competent authorities.
And Iraq participated in the Arab summit twenty-second session held in Sirte in Libya late last March of last year, 2010, at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, representing Iraq minister Hoshyar Zebari, and discussed the most prominent Arab issues, including the Palestinian issue, and the draft statute of the Iraqi parliament, in the absence of Lebanon to participate at a high level after the announcement of the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, for lack of personal involvement, against the backdrop of uncertainty surrounding the Libyan role in the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr.
It is noteworthy that Iraq has hosted the Arab summit twice, in convening the Arab summit, the ninth in 1978 and to decide which province companies and institutions operating in Egypt that deal directly with Israel and disapproval of the Camp David, as well as the convening of the summit of the 12 in 1990, which saw severe tensions between Iraq and Kuwait and the UAE and the United Arab erupted evacuated the first Gulf War.
