02/20 2012
Zebari confirms Iraq's commitment to the decisions of the Arab League and Arab consensus
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Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, on Monday, Iraq's commitment to the decisions of the Arab League and Arab consensus, stressing that the special things to host Iraq for the Summit are going in the right direction, revealed Deputy Assistant Secretary-General of the university that the next conference will discuss economic files task, including strategic energy and food and water security.
A statement issued by the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, and received "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, for Zebari as saying during a meeting with a delegation from the Arab League, said that "Iraq is committed to the decisions of the Arab League and Arab consensus," asserting that "all things are going in the right direction to host Iraq conference Arab summit. "
The statement pointed out that "Zebari eighth efforts by the Arab League delegation in order to achieve the best possible for the success of the conference."
The statement said, quoting the Assistant Secretary-General of the University Alezn Samir Seif, saying during the meeting that "the Summit will discuss the files, including the important economic, energy strategy of Arab food security, water security, and the strategy of disaster reduction."
It is worth mentioning that the Preparatory Committee for the preparation of the summit issued a directory of the Arab summit as well as the launch site of its own over the Internet.
And postponed the Arab League, in (5 May 2011), the Arab summit which was scheduled to be held in March 2011 in Baghdad to March 2012, at the request of Iraq after the consensus Arab member states in view of the Arab reality the "new and inappropriate" caused by the revolution which was then in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Tunisia and Syria.
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 and to provide insights, ideas, and the preparations necessary to improve and develop the interface construction of the city, commensurate with its history and its place in coordination with the ministries and agencies competent, has announced at the end of the month of January last that full preparations for the summit is now Closed at 100 percent.
Iraq hosted the Arab summit twice, first in 1978 and that decided to boycott companies and organizations operating in Egypt that deal directly with Israel and not to approve the Camp David, the second summit which carried the number 12 was held in 1990 saw the presence of all Arab leaders, except President Syria's Hafez al-Assad, who was in a state of hostility with the regime of President Saddam Hussein against the background of rivalry for the leadership of the Baath and the position of Syria in support of Iran in the war of eight years he fought Iraq with them, as witnessed Summit severe tensions between Iraq on one hand and the State of Kuwait and the UAE on the one hand the other, broke out after the second Gulf War.
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