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Arab League Secretary General arrives in Baghdad to discuss

Unread postPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:13 am
by Stillw8n
Arab League Secretary General arrives in Baghdad to discuss preparations for the Arab summit

Baghdad, December 8 (Rn) – An adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday, on the arrival of Arab League Secretary General to Baghdad on Thursday afternoon in a two-day visit.

Said Abdul Hussein Hamid Al Jabri told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) announced today that “Arab League Secretary General Nabil Arab arrived in Baghdad on an official visit to Iraq, will meet this afternoon with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to discuss Iraq’s preparations for holding the Arab summit.”

He said, “the initiative will be launched to resolve the issue of Iraq and the Syrian clarify Iraq’s position on the political problem in Syria.”
The Iraqi government has confirmed that Iraq’s failure to vote in favor of the Arab League’s decision to suspend the membership of Damascus did not come in support of the regime of Bashar al-Assad, but came from the conviction that the resolution does not serve the interests of the Syrian people.

Iraq objected to the decision to suspend the membership of the League of Arab Syria, did not vote for him, political analysts were of the view that the positive position of Iraq from the Syrian regime came against the backdrop of pressures exerted on the Tehran government in Baghdad to secure the continued support of Hezbollah.

Iraq has hosted the Arab summit twice, in convening the Arab summit, ninth in 1978 and to decide which county companies and institutions operating in Egypt that deal directly with Israel, and not to approve the Camp David, as well as the convening of the summit of the 12 in 1990, which witnessed a severe tensions between Iraq and the State of Kuwait The United Arab Emirates, after which broke out at the first Gulf War.

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