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Saudi move to "derail" the summit of Baghdad and moved to Riyadh.
Ali Aldhargam - 15/02/2012 PM - 8:20 p.m. | Hits: 837
Revealed the Egyptian press reports, on Wednesday, the presence of Arab telecom extensive targeting a mini-Arab summit called for by the Saudi monarch King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, indicating that the Saudi capital Riyadh are the venue of the summit.
The Assistant Secretary General of the League Ahmed Ben Helli, identified earlier in the twenty-ninth day of March next date for the Arab summit. As he emphasized that there is no reservation by any Arab country to hold the next Arab summit in Baghdad.
The Soft Egyptian newspaper in a report Hhj ", a copy of" The diplomatic sources said Jordanian and Lebanese presence of Arab telecom intensive 48 hours have been underway, aimed at an Arab mini-summit ".
The newspaper added that "Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, who called for the convening of this summit," indicating that "the Saudi capital Riyadh is the venue of the summit."
The newspaper said that "diplomatic sources confirmed that Saudi Arabia is making intensive efforts to thwart the Baghdad summit at all costs, has had contacts in-depth with the Arab parties to persuade them to participate in a mini-summit in Riyadh to be a substitute for Baghdad summit to be held at the end of March next."
The sources indicated that "the Saudi efforts are still at the point of zero range has achieved little or nothing for the moment."
The newspaper announced that "the Arab League has made a reservation in principle to hold this summit, which is likely to include both Saudi Arabia along with Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Qatar and the UAE, with the possibility of wider participation of Arab mini-summit to include Iraq."
The sources said that "Saudi Arabia does not want the existence of an important and pivotal role for Iraq in the Arab and regional levels, but strives to keep it in a state of weakness and fragmentation."
It is said that Iraq continues to insist on the right to host the Arab summit regular annual, was supposed to be hosted by last year but that political conditions in more than one Arab country at the time prevented the contract.
The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Arab Nabil at the end of last month's Arab summit to be held in Baghdad Bamar next March as planned.
The high political parties announced they do not deal with Iraq as long as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is the head of the government.
The Riyadh has declined to grant visa-Maliki, despite attempts by the Iraqi government to bridge the gap and achieve a state of convergence between the two countries.
The Arab summit in the Iraqi capital Baghdad international event larger, organized by the country since 2003, accounting for the Municipality of Baghdad for the committee to create and insurance requirements for the Conference of the Arab summit, while confirming the Iraqi Interior Ministry that it had prepared a security plan to protect the Arab summit include multiple stages.
Iraq hosted the Arab summit twice, the first summit was ninth in 1978 and was the second summit of the 12 in 1990, which witnessed a sharp tensions between Iraq and Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates broke out after the second Gulf War.
The Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari called in recently all the Arab countries to actively participate in the summit, expected to be nestled in Baghdad next month, amid speculation the leaders for most of the reluctance to participate.
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