Meeting of Arab foreign concludes the presence of 15 ministers
Date: Thursday, 29.03.2012 7:51
Baghdad / range
Iraqi political source revealed Wednesday, on the participation of 15 ministers at a meeting of Arab foreign ministers, which took place yesterday afternoon in central Baghdad. And the convening of Arab foreign ministers meeting in the Palace Green Zone government, which preceded the summit of Baghdad on Thursday. The source, who asked not to be named "The 15 ministers who participated in the Ministerial Meeting which was held yesterday in Baghdad
They are ministers of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Algeria, Comoros, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Palestine, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Yemen and Djibouti. "
The source explained that "Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar participated at the level of their representatives to the Arab League."
He said, "Oman participated at the level of Under Secretary of State, and Tunisia at the level of Director General of the General Administration of affairs of the Arab and Islamic countries. "
The Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who chaired the meeting of Arab foreign ministers said in a speech "to support the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction and to compel Israel to sign the Convention on the Prohibition of weapons of mass destruction."
"For his part, revealed the source of political beginning, that the Arab foreign ministers agreed at a private meeting that Akduha following the opening of the Preparatory Conference for the summit, to be Qatar, the host of the upcoming Arab summit after the withdrawal of the Sultanate of Oman for hosting.
The source said that "" the Arab foreign ministers agreed in the private meeting that Akduha following the opening of the Preparatory Conference to host the State of Qatar of the coming Arab summit in 2013 instead of the Sultanate of Oman "
, according to a mechanism alphabetical order of letters pursued by the Arab League since 2001 in the selection of countries that will host the summits, the role was a reality on the Sultanate of Oman to take the presidency of the summit of Iraq, the source, who requested anonymity, confirmed that "the reasons for rejection of Oman to host next summit is not yet known."
The Arab League decided in 2000 to be a host of Arab summits periodically each year, according to infiltrate alphabetical characters where The first list held under this system in Jordan in 2001 and followed a summit in Beirut and Cairo, which was scheduled in Bahrain and Tunisia in 2004 and Algeria in 2005 and Sudan in 2006, Saudi Arabia 2007 and Damascus in 2008 and Qatar in 2009 and Libya in 2010.
It is noteworthy that yesterday concluded the meetings of ministers of finance and the economy Arab in the presence of only seven ministers such as Saudi Arabia, while those of the rank of director general.
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