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Arab nations want a ceasefire in Iraq
2003-04-09
Arab nations have formally asked the 191-member UN General Assembly to convene a special meeting to adopt a resolution calling for ceasefire in Iraq and respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
"We're doing it for the Children!"
The Arab Group's chairman Ambassador Abdullah Alsaidi of Yemen, who sent in the request, said they are moving the assembly as there is no chance of such a resolution being adopted by the 15-member Security Council.
That veto thing works both ways, doesn't it Abdullah?
Any resolution adopted by the assembly is not binding but could prove amusing embarrassing for the United States and Britain who are seen by a majority of the members as waging a war that is not authorised by the Security Council. The Arabs said about 50 countries who are supporting the United States might try to block a debate in the assembly but they had made the request in view of the fierce fighting in which thousands might maybe perhaps could have been probably weren't have been killed. The Arabs sent in their request on Tuesday after a closed-door meeting of the 116-member Non Aligned Movement (NAM) failed to develop a consensus on seeking the session. Arab diplomats had been working for days to get the support of the NAM.
Sounds like the usual Arab effectiveness at work. Can't these guys do anything?
But diplomats say it could be several days before the General Assembly convenes as the US and Britain are working against it, asserting that it was unnecessary and would be divisive. The assembly's 28-member General Committee is scheduled to consider the request on Friday, diplomats say.
I say have the vote anytime after Friday. Shootin' may be mostly over by then anyways.

Kinda late for a ceasefire now, isn't it?
Posted by:Steve White

#3  ...just a second...in a minute...we'll be right there...in a little bit...
Posted by: tu3031   2003-04-09 10:35:05  

#2  Well, we just pulled down the Saddam Statue in the center of Baghdad - so they can have their cease fire in about a week, right after we done with Tikrit, Kirkuk and Mosul.
Posted by: OldSpook   2003-04-09 10:08:39  

#1  So, we now have about 50 countries on our side, up from about 30 when we started? Nothing like hopping on the victory train.
Damn, the UN can't even get it together to discuss a vote on a conflict well underway, and we're supposed to let them run Iraq when we are done?
Posted by: Former Russian Major   2003-04-09 08:26:56  

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