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Zebari at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss crisis, the Syrian
On: Sun 02/12/2012 10:25
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up today, Sunday, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari to Cairo, to participate in meeting the emergency and appealed to Arab foreign ministers to discuss the Syrian crisis and find a way out of what is happening in Syria, especially after the Russian veto and the Chinese in the Security Council.
The representative of Iraq to the Arab League Ambassador Qais al-Azzawi in a press statement the presence of the Iraqi minister
noting that "Iraq is interested in the case of Syria, especially since the Arab summit in Baghdad on the doors and the need for Arab consensus on the Syrian crisis and find a way out before the summit, especially as complicated a lot in the period last. "
and change the position of Iraq from the Syrian crisis, after he refused any Arab resolution against Syria at the beginning of the crisis, but at the last meeting of the Arab League Council in the month of January, supported the new initiative presented at the UN Security Council, which disrupted Russian veto of China, This is because observers to change the position of Iraq is to win the Arab League members to attend the Baghdad summit at the highest levels, especially countries of Persian Gulf.
He said al-Azzawi, "Iraq with the Arab consensus in any decision they take, and this is the official position expressed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and will be fixed at this meeting." It adds Cairo tomorrow, four meetings of Arab foreign ministers, where he will meet the foreign ministers of the GCC am under the chairmanship of Saudi Arabia to unify the positions of these countries about the Syrian crisis, while ministers will meet ministerial committee in charge of the crisis the Syrian after the meeting, followed by the meeting of the University Council at full its subsidiary, and after the meeting Ministers of the Arab Peace Initiative Committee for Palestine and attended by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
part count for the Foreign Relations Committee at this meeting, especially after the Iraqi position and the subsequent divergence of views both between the Arab states or between the political blocs.
member of Paradise on Foreign Relations Attorney Rafie Abdul-Jabbar said in statement to the extent even though the Foreign Minister's visit is the prerogative of the government nor the income of the Relations Committee, but that it may be sensitive, especially after the rejection of the coalition in Iraq led by Iyad Allawi's government's attitude toward what is going on in Syria and the government should respond to the positions of the blocks fact that the Iraq governing Baltuaqat as well as the absence of speech united.
He added that Abdul-Jabbar: According to my information that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, despite the ad hoc meeting to discuss the situation of Syria, but he sought to dampen the atmosphere between the Arab foreign ministers, urging them to hold a summit in Baghdad on time in the 29 of March next, which had been confirmed by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Ben Helli, during his recent visit to Baghdad.
He said Abdul-Jabbar, the situation in Syria is quite different, and that fear Iraq logical as posed by Syria of importance especially for the security of Iraq, adding that the government fears the arrival of Salafi movement came to power in Syria, thus Iraq will be vulnerable to chaos and security threaten on an ongoing basis, and Iraq did not stand against the Syrian people, but a conservative on the mechanism that could be in Syria at the level of events and scenarios dramatic.
stressing that all the blocks did not change its position, including the Iraqi List, which expressed its opposition to Iraq's position .
and decided to Arab foreign ministers, at their meeting on Saturday, suspended from Syria, the Council of the Arab League until its full implementation of the commitments agreed upon under the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the crisis Syrian adopted by the Council at its extraordinary meeting on November 2 current.
but the decision was made with the consent of 18 countries, as witnessed vote objection Lebanon and Yemen, with Iraq.
experiencing Syria since the 15 of last March, a protest movement confronted the security forces violently, according to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the death toll has reached more than 2000 people, mostly civilians, notaries lists the Observatory, and 374 of the army and internal security forces, at the time the opposition has accused the Syrian authorities of being involved with what it called terrorist groups abroad.
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