Report: Split in pro-Iraq Baath Party in Jordan
Jordan, Politics, 4/11/2000

The Jordanian weekly al-Majd has reported in its most recent issue about a continued split in the lines of the Jordanian Socialist Arab Baath Party, which is pro-Iraq, as a new group of this party's leaders and members announced on Sunday that some 36 of its members have resigned or frozen their membership in this party, unless the party's higher leadership responds to the demands of the committee to call for a special conference to be attended by all members of this party.

The Jordanian weekly indicated that the "party salvation committee," led by parliamentarian Khalil Haddadin called for a meeting last Thursday. It was the second meeting of its kind at Haddadin's office in which a great number of the party's leadership and members who did not take part in the first meeting of the committee which was held on March 5 and which had released what has become known as (statement no. 23), which has paved for the partition and split movement in the lines of the party.

The party's salvation committee briefed the participants in the meeting on its work plans and achievements in contacting the party members in their various positions.

The committee made it clear during Thursday's meeting that its work-plan calls for working in two directions: The first is to continue contacting the Baathists who are inside the party to explain their viewpoints, and the second direction is to continue contacting Baathists who are outside the framework of the party and to give a "grace period" of three months for the higher leadership to call for convening an extraordinary conference, to be attended by all Baathists without any exception in order to discuss the new conditions of the party and to make new elections.

The committee stressed its commitment to the unity of the party and the need of abiding to the first statement no. 23" of the party.

The Jordanian weekly stated that the participants in the meeting refused to talks in any matters that might evoke formation of a new party.

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