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To ensure the summit in Baghdad: the willingness of government to release detained Arabs
Posted 18/02/2012 03:19 PM
BAGHDAD - "squares of liberation"
The Iraqi government expressed its willingness to the release of Arab detainees is convicted of terrorist crimes, in a move described as an attempt to ensure Arab support, especially the Gulf Arab summit held in the capital Baghdad at the end of next month.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced during his country's readiness to host the Arab summit (AFP)
The willingness of government, according to informed sources, through the formation of a committee of representatives from the Ministries of Justice, Interior and Foreign Affairs and Human Rights: "to consider the possibility of release or exchange them with the Iraqis."
The government took from the American side after his withdrawal from the country of detainees who were detained in the prisons of his forces in the province of Basra and the Baghdad airport and other cities. did not announce Baghdad groomed and only pointing out that they have dozens, belonging to the nationalities of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, Algeria and Sudan and Yemen, including the Lebanese Almtmi to Hezbollah, on the Daqduq Moses who was arrested by a U.S. force in March of 2007 after the killing of four American soldiers in Karbala.
During previous visits to Arab officials in Baghdad discussed the file with the Iraqi side, according to a member of the Human Rights Commission representative to an inch: the release of Jordanians, Libyans, Syrians and as much information available to the Committee, some still in detention, and we have no accurate data about their numbers and head of government the last of this Shan expresses the desire of officials to obtain Arab support to ensure the holding of the summit in Baghdad at the end of next month. "In turn, confirmed member of the Committee for a coalition of Kurdish blocs Ashwaq Dry need to take the Arab countries a similar position, for the purpose of the release of Iraqi detainees still being held with according to the principle of dealing the same.
The Ministry of Justice has announced the release of dozens of detainees under a memorandum of understanding Iranian Minister Hassan Shammari consensus reached with his Iranian counterpart last year, provides for the exchange of prisoners, but the parliamentary committee confirmed the implementation of the agreement by the Iraqi side and disable it from the other party.
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