18/10/2011Zebari, the middle of the Arab to visit Iraq next month to arrange for holding the Arab summit
Baghdad is active in the Arab world and play the role of mediation to calm the situation and the Syrian calls for a quick solution to the crisis of Yemen
Cairo - Isra Khalifa
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, the meeting will be held in Baghdad in mid-next month during the visit of Secretary General of the Arab League, Nabil el-Arabi to discuss arrangements for the Arab summit in Baghdad next March.
Zebari told a joint news conference with the Arabic in Cairo on Tuesday evening, in response to a question by the "morning" on the summit of Baghdad: "He invited the Secretariat of the Arab League and its Secretary General to visit Iraq in mid next month to discuss the final preparations for the Arab summit coming in Baghdad.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs: "He discussed with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, all developments on the Arab and Iraqi, particularly Yemen, Libya and Syria," noting that "the visit of Secretary-General of the Arab League came to discuss with the Iraqi leadership on the next Arab Summit .. and this will be an important certainly to evaluate the situation.
Zebari said the importance of the summit of Baghdad, said: "Instead of that there are peaks of European and African countries to discuss the affairs of Arab causes more useful to meet with Arab leaders and discuss the concerns of their country and their people.
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He continued: "Whatever the circumstances and difficulties must be Arab Summit Ventzkr Khartoum summit when there was a setback in June and came out about three solutions mission marked the entire Arab nation in difficult circumstances and very difficult, so why not hold, especially as most Arab states go through the developments of very large and revolutionary and you need to see, there is interference in our affairs. So the Arab Summit in Baghdad necessary and visit of the Secretary-General to discuss things in detail to make the right decision about it.
And his recent visit to Turkey, Zebari said: "He discussed with the Turkish side, the water issue and the problem of the common border between the two parties."
He added by saying: "The visit was part of activation of trade and economic exchange and open ports border and the problems that occur on the borders and the fight against extremism and also discussed the issue of water power for the first time we found a positive response from the Turkish leadership in securing a share of water needed for Iraq and border security issues, as our examination with the Turkish side effect Syria, Turkey is an influential country until in these cases is on the verge of making decisions in this matter, but the Arab initiative and the Arab decision were important in the meeting of Arab foreign ministers yesterday, where we agreed to send a ministerial committee to discuss all issues and a conference of the opposition and the Syrian government in the Arab League in 15 days and this is a good initiative and can lead to good results and reach a solution, "stressing that" yesterday's meeting was first given a real opportunity for the brothers in Syria to provide reforms and to utilize them .. because we are all keen to Syria and the fear of the increasing pressures and interventions offices in Syrian affairs in the event of failure to exploit this the opportunity.
Learned "morning," said a proposal to send an Arab delegation to Syria was the initiative of Iraq, where Iraq's refusal to freeze the membership of Syria.
For his part, the Arab: "I spoke with Iraqi Foreign Minister on various topics of interest to the Arab world, starting from the Arab Summit next in Iraq, where he Zebari invitation of the Secretary-General and the Arab League delegation to visit Iraq at the earliest opportunity to discuss issues related to special arrangements in this public meeting and agreed that this visit will be in the second half of next month.
He said the Secretary General: "As you've all issues concerning the status of the general Arab from Syria, Yemen, Libya and all the other problems.
In regard to Yemen, he said the Arab: "The Zebari believes that activate the Arab League from its role in Yemen," explaining that "there are ongoing contacts by the Arab League to display what can to provide for Yemen .. and we wait until it is signed on the initiative of the Gulf Cooperation Council, because what the initiative Gulf what the other hand, the representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations is a quantum leap.
and on the situation in Syria, said the Arab: "We exchanged opinion about what happened yesterday and the importance to accept the Syrian government to the decision to initiate a dialogue meeting was held and important conference of the Arab League after 15 days to reach what is needed now to stop the violence, and the start of real reform, to end this crisis.
A source high-level Arab "morning" Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari will hold contacts with the Syrian government to bring the points of view.
In the meantime, Research and Foreign Minister with his Egyptian counterpart Amr prospects of enhancing bilateral relations between the two countries and the current situation in the region.
A source at the Foreign Ministry said Zebari met with Amr sidelines of a meeting of Arab foreign ministers held at the headquarters of the Arab League yesterday at the request of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to discuss the situation in Syria, and discuss with him ways to settle the Iraqi debt to Egypt, which has already been made and the Egyptian Foreign Ministry a note about it to the Iraqi side, including Egypt's vision of the solutions proposed to deal with this file.
"The source added that" discussions included the theme of strengthening employment opportunities of Egypt and Egyptian companies to enter the Iraqi market, it was agreed that the Iraqi side to send reply to a note in the coming days."
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