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April 20, 2011

The fifth of next month .. extraordinary meeting to decide date of summit Baghdad

BAGHDAD - morning

Cairo - Esra Khalifa

Identified the Arab League, the fifth of next month as the date for the convening of an extraordinary ministerial meeting of Arab foreign ministers to decide on the "top of Baghdad."

An official source in the Office of the Secretary-General of the Arab League's "morning": that "the General Secretariat of the League is currently in contact with all Arab States to convene this meeting and decide on the orders of the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad on 11 and 12 of the next month.

The source continued: "The Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari suggested during a meeting with Secretary General of the League of Arab States in Cairo late last week held an extraordinary meeting of the University Council at the ministerial level to discuss this issue and reach a decision," noting that "So far, the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC Arab will participate in this meeting at the level of Foreign Ministers will discuss whether other topics as well as the subject of the Arab summit, but if the meeting would discuss only item they see the Arab summit to be held the meeting at the level of permanent delegates."

The Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, announced last week that the countries of Persian Gulf asked the Arab League to cancel the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad next May, he said, adding that the GCC request in a letter to the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa, without mentioning a reason for the request. and the politicians and Congress criticized the request of the Gulf Cooperation Council to cancel the summit of Baghdad, in the view of the Foreign Relations Committee that the position behind the dimensions of political and sectarian lines. as new Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Iraq's adherence as one of the founding of the League of Arab States the right to host the Arab summit.

In the meantime, ruled out the National Alliance MP, Yaseen Majeed is transferred venue of the Summit of Baghdad, or to be eliminated. Majid said: "It is unlikely to be the transfer of the summit venue to another country or to be eliminated this summit," he said, adding that "the Arab leaders agreed at the Sirte summit on the recent summit to be held in Baghdad and that is they need."

And on the possibility of failure to attend a number of Arab leaders, said Majid in a statement quoted by news agency Nina: "The failure to attend a number of leaders is to be expected and possible in all the summits held, there is no summit was attended by all leaders."

The head of the House of Representatives Osama Nujaifi warned yesterday of the cancellation or postponement of the summit Baghdad, saying: "Iraq has created all necessary to convene the Arab summit and divert huge amounts of money, but the Arab situation is not stable the cause of a number of dilemmas," stressing that "the postponement of the summit Baghdad, Iraq would harm relations with Arab countries, which demanded a delay, and these countries that the reduction in positions, especially as the holding of this summit is important to us and them. "

Nujaifi also contacted by telephone yesterday, the first President of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Jassem Al-Kharafi, and discussed with him the importance of Persian Gulf countries to attend the summit, with Al-Kharafi said he would make every effort to persuade the Gulf states in the presence of a summit of Baghdad.

For his part, said a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Hassan Khudair Chuird that Iraq had not received a formal letter from the Arab League to cancel or postpone the date of the Arab Summit in Baghdad.

He said Chuird: "The postponement of the Arab summit or cancel, require something officially, and that Iraq had not been received until now from the Arab League any official notification on this subject, and that the university is the sole legitimate one that decides the possibility of the State to host the summit," noting in a press statement "In the event of postponement of the Arab summit, it does not mean that Iraq is not ready for hosting, but that the protests and political upheaval in some Arab countries behind the postponement." It is noteworthy that Iraq has hosted the Arab summit twice, in convening the Arab summit ninth year 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 witnessed a sharp tensions between the former regime and Kuwait and United Arab Emirates.

In turn, promised an MP for the Virtue Party Susan Saad, double car bombing yesterday in one of the entrances to the Green Zone, "a dangerous indicator to assess the security situation in Baghdad, which will reflect negatively on the possibility of convening the Arab Summit in it."

Saad said: "The presence of the leaders and representatives of Arab countries to Baghdad needs to restore security to pay the States to send their representatives, and what happened to blow in one of the gates of the Chairperson of the Green Zone threatens the audience," indicating that "the Arab Summit in a place other than Baghdad, it needs to Preparations take between 4 to 5 months almost, so I ruled out the transfer to another place in time that Iraqi government had spent part of the money allocated for the summit in the process of preparation. "considered Saad declared that" tensions in the Arab street does not predict to hold such gatherings task, and held it must have the commitment of all Arab countries to attend and participate actively.

"The summit Baghdad international event the largest which is scheduled to be 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 preparations needed to improve and develop the interface construction of the city of Baghdad, commensurate with its history and its place in coordination with the competent ministries and authorities, while the Interior Ministry confirmed that it had prepared a security plan to protect the Arab summit includes several stages carried out by Iraqi forces only.

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