04/05/2011 Cairo: Zebari, Moussa discuss the subject of the summit tomorrow Baghdad
Cairo, 4 May (Rn) - is expected to consider and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, Arab summit, which was scheduled to be held in Baghdad this month before being postponed the announcement because of the uprisings in the region.
The consultant met with Musa Security Affairs to the Prime Minister and the Deputy Minister of Interior Adnan al-Asadi, who delivered a message from Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Moussa said in a statement to reporters after the meeting in the presence of a reporter and news agency Kurdistan (Rn) The letter concerns the overall situation in the Arab region and the Arab summit.
The Iraqi government has strongly hold the summit in the Iraqi capital, but several Gulf states insist held elsewhere.
And Moses said in an interview with the newspaper "Middle" Country Sunday "The Arab world preoccupied with certain conditions imposed by the revolutions of the current Arab and, therefore, many States may not be able to come (to Iraq) because of these revolutions. Therefore, the summit should be postponed ".
And resulted in revolutions led by young people for the overthrow of Presidents of Tunisia and Egypt and continues to threaten the regimes in Syria and Yemen and Libya.
In response to a question about whether the meeting had discussed the arrangements for Baghdad summit, Moussa said he would meet the Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who is due in Cairo tomorrow during a stopover at the airport.
He pointed out to Moses that he will hold talks on summit Baghdad, "and tell him in this context, the results of my consultations with Arab countries on the summit and will be announced the decision about it."
On the new date for the emergency ministerial meeting which was scheduled on Thursday at the Arab League has been postponed, Moussa said that "there are consultations underway now to determine the date of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers due on the date by mid-month."
It was decided to postpone the Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the Council of the League of Arab States at the level of foreign ministers to the middle of this month instead of on Thursday, where he was scheduled to consult on the situation in the region and date of the summit of Baghdad.
It was assumed that the Summit will be held under the chairmanship of Iraq, in 23 of the month next March but was delayed to 29 of the same month, before being postponed to the month of May and then to an undetermined date after.
Analysts had swung the possibility of postponing the summit of Baghdad, especially since a number of Arab countries witnessed changes in their ruling.
Iraq did not add an Arab summit since late May of 1990 due to economic and political blockade imposed on it at the time.
Zebari said in the month of February last, holding the summit would not be affected by the protests and unrest in some Arab countries.
But lawmakers and Iraqi officials said that Arab protests in some countries, may adversely affect the Arab summit in Baghdad.
The representative of Iraq at the Arab League's ambassador to Qais al-Azzawi (Rn) that "the meeting was a message sent by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to the League of Arab States in the overall issues relating to Iraq."
http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/4/237048/
