Arab Summit scheduled in Baghdad for March 2012 without furt

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Arab Summit scheduled in Baghdad for March 2012 without further delay

‘No further postponement of Baghdad summit’
26/10/2011 17:05

Cairo, Oct. 26 (AKnews) – Iraqi envoy to Arab League Qays Azzawi told AKnews Wednesday that the next Arab League Summit, expected be held in Baghdad in March 2012, will not be further deferred whatever the price.

Qays said Iraq is fully prepared to host the twenty third summit and has spent huge amounts of money on the preparations.

The Iraqi government has allocated over $300 million for the preparations which include the rehabilitation of the presidential palace complexes and six of the capital’s biggest international hotels.

The summit was due to begin on March 23 this year but was postponed three times because of the uprisings and public protests that have swept through many Arab states in recent months.

Some observers even speculated the summit will never take place in Baghdad.

The hosting of the Summit in Baghdad has been hailed by Iraqi leaders as a “national achievement” and symbolic of Iraq’s return to the Arab arena.

Iraq has not hosted the Arab Summit since May 1990 due to the years of economic and political sanctions imposed on the country by the UN following the invasion of Kuwait the same year.

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