Friday, April 22, 2011

Baghdad summit .. Postpone or cancel


Differed Iraqi lawmakers to the characterization of the reasons for the desire of some Arab countries to postpone or cancel the Arab summit in Baghdad in May next, while they agreed on the need to preserve this benefit national of Iraq, and some went to the extent the claim to suspend Iraq's membership in the League of Arab States in the absence of contract Summit in Baghdad .

The Kurdistan Alliance MP Mahmoud Othman said the "political instability in the Arab world represent an obstacle in front of the first scheduled summit held in Baghdad, while the second is obstacle tense relationship between Iraq and some Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia . "

Osman said the "weekly" that "the Iraqi position of protests in Bahrain has increased the tension in the relationship between Baghdad and most Gulf countries, which reflected negatively on the opportunity to host the Summit of Baghdad . "

The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League Mohammed Sobeih announced last week that the University has received a request from the GCC countries to cancel the Arab Summit in full, stressing that it be discussed 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 , as pointed out that the request came because of the position of Iraq's pro-opposition protests against the Bahraini government .

In the same vein revealed the Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli, for a tendency to postpone the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad in May next, pointing out that "The university identified the fifteenth of next month as the date for holding an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers to set a new date for the summit and set a new secretary general, succeeding Amr Moussa . "

Ben Helli said in a press statement of a number of media that "the consultations conducted by the Secretariat of the Arab League with the Member States showed a trend towards postponement of the Arab summit to be held on the tenth and atheist th of May next . "

, "Ben Helli said" The university decided to hold an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers on 15 May to discuss a new date for the Arab summit and the appointment of a new secretary general of the League of Arab States, succeeding the Secretary-General Amr Moussa, who ends his term in the fifteenth of May .

For his part, MP from the centrist Alliance Khaled Suleiman that the "important for Iraq to hold the summit in Baghdad, regardless of the time . "

The Solomon's "weekly" "We do not care as much as we care about the postponement of the summit in Baghdad at any time . "

And Solomon saw that "the best thing you should do is to support the Arab countries and the attribution of Iraq due to host the summit to re-Iraqi-Arab relations to normal . "

So called cluster MP Shahid Mehrab internalized in the National Alliance, an inch on the government to "suspend Iraq's membership in the Arab League summit was canceled if Baghdad ".

Inch and said in a statement that "Iraq is a founding member of the Arab League is entitled to be held at home to the Arab summit, and to encroach upon the rights of Iraq will not be silent . "

He added an inch, "The contradictory positions of Arab countries and all Arab countries stood against the former Iraqi regime to protest the invasion of Kuwait while we have not seen such a situation from entering the Peninsula Shield forces of Bahrain . "

The inch that "the House of Representatives and the Iraqi government condemned the entry of the Peninsula Shield forces Bahrain calling it interference in the affairs of an Arab country . "

The head of the Iraqi Council of Representatives Osama Nujaifi warned earlier that "the abolition of the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad, Iraq would harm relations - Arab," stressing that "his country has created all necessary and spent huge amounts of money to prepare her . "

He pointed out that "the cancellation of the summit is unacceptable and damages relations Iraqi Arab deeply," adding that "all Arab leaders to reconsider their position on the summit because it is important to them and us, and it has a lot of visions that can Arab countries which play an important role in the world and the region . "

For her part, the Iraqi government that it would not waive the coming Arab summit in Baghdad, and left later identified to the Arab consensus, indicating that Iraq has the full right to host the Summit and the undisputed one .

The Minister of State, the government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh's "Alsumaria News", "The Iraqi government reserves its full right to hold the next Arab summit in Baghdad," noting that "Iraq does not accept to be held in any other place . "

Dabbagh said "The Arabs do not hesitate to come to Baghdad at a time collecting it and they see fit, and it is up to the Arab consensus to decide that . "

The Iraqi government spokesman that "Iraq welcomes all initiatives from any party was," asserting that "Iraq has the full right to host the summit will be one undisputed . "

And met with the events taking place in Bahrain reactions large in Iraq, where Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on 26 March and the 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 Shiites, as called on to prevent interference in the affairs of the Kingdom of small, indicating 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 Iraqi Council of Representatives suspended its 44 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 was postponed to 11 May next year because of the revolutions of 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, Libya Add tensions to move to Bahrain 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 erupted evacuated the second Gulf War

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