Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Arab League announces postponement of Baghdad Arab summit

BAGHDAD (Alsumaria News): The Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli, today, and the tendency to postpone the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad in May next, stressing that the university has identified the fifteenth of next month, the current date for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers to set a date New to the summit and set a new secretary general to succeed Moses.
Ben Helli said in a press statement of a number of media, today, that “the consultations conducted by the Secretariat of the Arab League with the Member States showed a tendency to postpone the Arab summit to be held in the 10 and 11 of May next.”
“Ben Helli said” The university decided to hold an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in the 15 of next month to discuss a new date for the Arab summit and set a new secretary general of the League of Arab States, succeeding the Secretary-General Amr Moussa, who ends his term on 15 May next. “
The Arab diplomatic source revealed in an interview earlier “Alsumaria News”, on Tuesday, that the Kuwaiti government will take part in Arab summit to be held in Baghdad in May next, while referring to the existence of contacts between Iraq and Kuwait and the Arab League on the reduction of the level of representation the Gulf at the summit meetings , confirmed that Iraq has submitted a formal request for the session specified in the timing nor the 11 of May next.
The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari formally requested during a meeting with the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, last week, held an extraordinary meeting of Arab League Council at the level of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on the fifth day of May next. The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League Mohammed Sobeih announced Last week, the university received a request from the GCC countries to cancel the Arab Summit in full, confirmed they were looking for with the parties the Gulf and the Iraqi issue of postponement of the summit in full or held in place last alternative is the capital, Baghdad, and pointed out that the request was made ​​because of Iraq’s position on pro- of opposition protests against the Bahraini government.
And met with the events taking place in Bahrain reactions large in Iraq, where Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on 26 of March current, the incidence of sectarian tension in the region following the entry force of Peninsula Shield to Bahrain, stressing that the issue has become the issue of Sunnis and Shi’ites, calling for the prevention of intervention in the affairs of the Kingdom of small, indicating that asserting that “the entry of the forces of the Sunni Arab countries classified by the government to Sunni Shiites in Bahrain put in front of a crowd like a case of Sunni against Shiite.
The Presidency of the Council suspended the Iraqi parliament Thursday before last, its the 44 until the 27 of March current, in solidarity with protests taking place in Bahrain.
And went out in the provinces of Baghdad, Najaf, Karbala, Diwaniya, Diyala, demonstrations involving hundreds of citizens and clerics to demand the military forces leave Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Bahrain, chanting slogans condemning the targeting of unarmed demonstrators.
It was scheduled for the Arab summit on 29 March, but it was postponed to 11 May next because of the revolutions Arabic in Tunisia and Egypt, and the overthrow of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and the revolutions that were taking place in all of Yemen and Libya as well as tensions spill over into All of Bahrain in the earlier, and now Syria.
The Arab summit in the Iraqi capital Baghdad international event the largest, organized by the country since 2003, where it formed a secretariat of Baghdad, a committee to create and secure the special requirements of the Conference of the Arab Summit and to provide visions and ideas and the preparations required for the improvement and development of the interface construction of the city of Baghdad, commensurate with its history and its place in coordination with the ministries and the competent authorities, with The Ministry of Interior that it had prepared a security plan to protect the Arab summit includes several stages carried out by Iraqi forces only.
It is noteworthy that Iraq has hosted the Arab summit twice, in convening the Arab summit ninth in 1978 and to decide which province companies and institutions operating in Egypt that deal directly with Israel and disapproval of the Camp David, as well as convening the summit of the 12-year 1990, which experienced severe tensions between Iraq and Kuwait and the UAE United Arab broke out at the evacuated Gulf War II.

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