May 3, 2011
Postponement of a meeting of Arab foreign ministers to mid-May the current
Alsumaria News/Cairo
Arab diplomatic source revealed on Tuesday that the Arab foreign ministers decided to postpone the special meeting of the University Council of Foreign Ministers to be held on the fifth of May current, and expected to identify all the 13 or 15 of this month as a new target for the meeting.
The source said in an interview with "Alsumaria News", "The Arab foreign ministers decided to postpone the Extraordinary Meeting of Foreign Ministers which was scheduled to be held on the fifth of May current," attributing the cause to "the existence of links to a number of Arab foreign ministers, including the meeting of the International Contact Group on Libya in the Italian city of Rome."
The source, who asked not to be named, said: "UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, President of the current session of the GCC countries, to submit to the Secretariat of the Arab League's application for approval of the decision of the Arab foreign ministers," adding that "consultations with the Minister still under way to determine the new date during the next two days."
The source expected that the "new date will be between 13 and 15 of May now."
The director of the Department of Arab League of Arab States on Aljarush likely in an interview for "Alsumaria News", earlier in the day Tuesday, the possibility of postponing the meeting of the Council of the Arab League extraordinary Arab foreign ministers, expected to provide Arab leaders a proposal for the delegation of ministers is part of their prerogative to appoint a Secretary New to the University.
It has already been stressed Permanent Representative of Iraq to the Arab League Ambassador Qays al-Azzawi, on Monday, the Arab foreign ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting after next Thursday to discuss the postponement of the Arab summit, and the issue of choosing a new secretary general of the Arab League, succeeding Amr Moussa, in a diplomatic source said that all possibilities open, including refusal to postpone the summit in Baghdad.
The Arab League announced earlier forward by the Arab Ministerial Meeting Extraordinary Council of the League three days to be in the fifth day of May instead of VIII, at the request of the Sultanate of Oman, in order to set a new date for the convening of the Arab summit.
The Secretariat of the League of Arab States, announced during last April, the identification of the eighth of May, a date for a meeting of Arab foreign ministers.
Will discuss the Arab League Council in appointing a new secretary general of the Arab League to replace the Secretary-General Amr Moussa, who ends his second term in the fifteenth of next month.
They expected to Arab diplomatic sources agree that the Arab foreign ministers on the appointment of the Deputy Secretary-General of the League, Ambassador Ahmed Ben Helli, temporarily until the election of the Arab summit, Secretary-General after the ratification of the session.
It has already been announced that the Arab League, on 25 April, the start of consultations to advance the date of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss developments in the Arab countries, as called for States to achieve the reforms and stop the violence against demonstrators, carried the Arab governments responsible for the blood of its citizens being shed in order to achieve democracy , arguing that resistance to the movement of history is a bad bet and convicted.
The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari formally requested during a meeting with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, in this April, an emergency meeting of Arab League Council at the level of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on 15 May now.
The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League Mohammed Sobeih said earlier last month, that the university had received a request from the GCC countries to cancel the Arab Summit in Baghdad, saying they were looking for with the parties the Gulf and the Iraqi issue of postponement of the summit in full or held in another place replacement of the capital Baghdad, while he noted that the request came because of the position of Iraq's pro-opposition protests against the Bahraini government.
And supported the Arab League revolutions Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt through its Secretary-General Amr Moussa, who participated in the Committee of Wise Men during the Egyptian revolution, and solidarity with the demonstrators, "an Egyptian citizen", and participated in protests in Tahrir Square.
During the revolution and supported the League of Arab Jamahiriya Libyan rebels, and called for a ban to fly to the Libyan regime, led by Gaddafi and the Libyan regime has suspended participation in the meetings of the Arab League.
Experiencing a number of Arab countries mass protests to demand the ouster of their heads and change the system of government, including Libya, which has seen since the 17 of February, in an unprecedented way, a revolution inspired by the tens of thousands of demonstrators, the events of the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, which toppled presidents Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, seen in states of Bahrain and Syria protests demanding the departure of the chairpersons and governmental reforms.
