Iraq hopes to attend Assad to its summit and feared the collapse of the Arabs, "sectarian."
Ali Aldhargam - 19/02/2012 PM - 8:52 p.m.
Expressed the Government of Iraq, Sunday, hoped to attend Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or his representative to the upcoming Arab summit in Baghdad, emphasizing that Iraq would abide by the decision of the Arab League on the issue of this audience.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a televised interview, "that" Iraq is asking the Arab League decision to suspend the participation of Syria is the only university in the meetings or at the summit level as well. "
Maliki said, "If the Syrian post comments only at the level of the delegates at the university, we hope Syria to attend the summit, whether at the level of the President or his representative."
He made it clear, "If the League's decision to suspend all posts We are part of the Arab League."
He pointed to al-Maliki, "We prefer to be involved because it opens the page of the dialogue away from the intervention and provoke sectarian atmosphere, and since no interest in a situation to deteriorate further in Syria."
And between al-Maliki said that "all Arab states as states confirmed attendance, but we heard from the Arab League that 13 head of state will attend, with the rest of the world will be represented at the level of prime ministers or foreign ministers."
He continued, "We hope to attend as many of the leaders, and we hope that the contract is being discussed in the Arab world."
Al-Maliki that "the focus should be on the Arab spring, and where to go this Arab group in the light of the international street congestion," adding, "We have to determine the position of the Arabs and turning to where, because the Arabs do not know where to."
Maliki and warned that "the Arabs are turning towards the stages is very difficult and significant challenges, particularly in this region, because it has become an area of communal polarization."
Al-Maliki that "ambition is to meet people and say hello, but we need to discuss our destination, we are moving towards a new more open systems."
Maliki said he feared that "weaken the Arab entities to some extent controlled by the will of other countries, and showed him what I fear might happen, God forbid, there is sectarian polarization signs and warn him of it."
Maliki stressed that "Iraq, which witnessed between 2005 and 2007, a sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites have killed thousands refuses to be part of this polarization, but some groups may be forced to, because the fire does not stop at the end."
Prior to that reservation of Iraq, which shares borders with Syria, a length of 600 km from the Syrian decision to suspend participation in the meetings of the Arab League, and the decision to impose economic sanctions on it.
However, Iraq did not express reservations about the recent decisions of the University related to the formation of international joint Arab force is deployed in Syria and to support "political and material support" of the Syrian opposition.
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