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| Iraq Backs Idea of Arab Peacekeepers |
| 2012-03-18 |
| [An Nahar] Iraq's deputy foreign minister voiced support on Saturday for the idea of peacekeeping forces manned exclusively by Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... troops but stopped short of backing a Qatari proposal to deploy one in Syria. Labid Abbawi's remarks come ahead of an Arab summit due in Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... on March 29, the first meeting of the 22-nation bloc in the Iraqi capital since the late dictator Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. "We do support the idea, but of course there are a lot of details which have to be discussed," Abbawi told Agence La Belle France Presse when asked if Iraq backed an Arab League peacekeeping force. "But the idea is supported by us." He said he was not sure if the idea would be agreed at the upcoming summit, but said it was "a time to look at it again". Qatar has most forcefully advocated the idea of an Arab force, to be used particularly in Syria, and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani told Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday it was time to send Arab and other foreign troops to Syria. "The time has come to apply the proposal to send Arab and international troops to Syria," Sheikh Hamad said during a meeting of top diplomats that was to be joined by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov later on Saturday. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Ya know, many ME Govts-States = Arab League like the idea of a OWG "Islamic Union", + even OWG "Mediterranean Union", that doesn't have to rely on the US-NATO andor UNSC all the time to enforce Mandates = will of UNO + International Community, espec vee Muslim Countries, yet fail to do so because the Islamic tenet that no Muslim may fight or kill another Muslim. SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE. Lest we fergit, 9-11/GWOT + WAR FOR OWG-NWO = ANTI-STATUS QUO = OLD WAYS M-U-S-T CHANGE, NOT "SHOULD" OR "MIGHT" CHANGE. No more wudda, cudda, shudda, mighta. D *** NG IT, MUST, MUST - SPELLED M-U-S-S - MUST! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-03-18 23:14 |