Zeibari in Yemen ignores the question of dispatching forces to Iraq
Yemen-Iraq, Politics, 9/9/2004

The Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zeibari started yesterday an official visit to Yemen, which was the first for an Arab official to this state since the collapse of the regime of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Zeibari told journalists following meeting with the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh that the meeting dealt with the aid the Arab states can offer in preparations for the general elections due by the beginning of 2005 in Iraq and in the field of "rebuilding Iraq and preserving its security, unity and territorial integrity." But he also explained that the talks did not tackle with the possibility of sending Yemeni forces to Iraq in the course of a peace keeping force.

In July this year, Yemen proposed sending forces to Iraq but in the context of an international force under the auspices of the UN and after the withdrawal of the coalition forces from Iraq. Yemen also preconditioned for that the Iraqi government ask for sending forces.

For his part, the Yemeni president stressed " Yemen's stand in support of Iraq and backing any effort that can end the occupation and achieve security and stability in Iraq." The Iraqi minister also met with the Yemeni prime minister Abdul Qader Bajmal and his peer Abu Baker Abdullah al-Qurabi. He said that his visit falls in the course of the efforts exerted by the Iraqi government to strengthen bilateral relations with the Arab states.

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