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Malaysia to call for NAM meeting over Iraq
Malaysia will call for a meeting with Cuba and South Africa, the other members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) troika, soon to discuss latest developments in Iraq. "Yes, by God! That's it! We'll have a meeting!" Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said on Tuesday that this was being done in its capacity as NAM chairman. He said the troika members â the past and present chairmen of NAM â will discuss the position of Iraq as a NAM member and the role that can be played by the United Nations in the reconstruction of the nation. He said Malaysia proposed that the meeting take place soon in the light of the latest developments in the Middle East which were "very worrying." "I'm so worried! Oh, hold me, Fatimah!" Syed Hamid said besides the urgent need to rebuild Iraq, the talk of Syria being the next target of the US and its allies had brought about more uncertainty. "It is very worrying...it is like all problems can be easily settled through military means," he told newsmen after receiving donations totalling almost RM500,000 (US$131,578) from various organisations to the Iraqi Humanitarian Fund at his office here. Well, not all problems, but lots of them... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-04-15 |
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