April 13, 2011 Arab League confirmed it is looking to postpone the Arab summit in full ...
Alsumaria News
Cairo Arab League announced on Wednesday that it received a request from the GCC countries to cancel the Arab Summit in full, confirmed they were looking for with the parties the Gulf and Iraqi issue completely or postponement of the summit held in place last alternative is the capital of Baghdad.
The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League Ambassador Mohamed Sobeih in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "delegate UAE permanent representative to the Arab League Ambassador Mohamed virtual submitted a formal request to the Secretariat of the League of Arab States on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council which was chaired by the UAE in its current session, to cancel the summit Arabic to be held next month in Baghdad, "noting that" the demand was due to the Gulf Iraq's position on the pro-opposition protests against the government of Bahrain."
He said Sabih that "the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa is currently being urgent contacts with the parties Gulf with Iraq in an attempt to stave off cancellation of the summit, and the deferral of or agreement to be held at an alternate location to the Iraqi capital Baghdad," referring to "the need for consensus among Arab countries on solution before the announcement of a final position.
"He noted that Sabih "The Arab League has not made any official position so far in an attempt to wait for the outcome of the efforts of the Secretary-General Amr Moussa, in the light of his contacts with Arab leaders."
In the same context source said a senior Arab diplomat in the Arab League's "Alsumaria News" that "there is a tendency to hold an extraordinary meeting of Arab foreign ministers to take a final position before deciding on the request the Gulf." And met with the events taking place in Bahrain reactions large in Iraq, where Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on 26 of March current, the incidence of sectarian tension in the region following the entry force of Peninsula Shield to Bahrain, stressing that the issue has become the issue of Sunnis and Shi'ites, calling for the prevention of intervention in the affairs of the Kingdom of small, indicating that asserting that "the entry of the forces of the Sunni Arab countries classified by the government to Sunni Shiites in Bahrain put in front of a crowd like a case of Sunni against Shiite.
The Presidency of the Council suspended the Iraqi parliament Thursday before last, its the 44 until the 27 of March current, in solidarity with protests taking place in Bahrain.
And went out in the provinces of Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala, Diwaniya, Diyala, demonstrations involving hundreds of citizens and clerics to demand the military forces leave Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Bahrain, chanting slogans condemning the targeting of unarmed demonstrators.
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 competent ministries and authorities, as confirmed by the Ministry of Interior that it had prepared a security plan to protect the Arab summit includes several stages carried out by Iraqi forces only.
It is noteworthy that Iraq has hosted the Arab summit twice, in convening the Arab summit 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 convening the summit of the 12-year 1990, which experienced severe tensions between Iraq and Kuwait and the UAE United Arab broke out at the evacuated Gulf War II.
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