Arab League chief continues mission in Iraq
Iraq-Regional, Politics, 10/22/2005

The secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa continues his mission in Iraq in order to organize the national reconciliation conference among all Iraqi factions.

On Friday, Moussa met with the Muslim Scholars Commission which set before him its conditions for "national reconciliation" according to what it called the vision of the national forces which stand against occupation. But he said that the proposals made by the commission are not "conditions," rather an explanation for certain situations, points and topics to be proposed by the representatives of the commission.

The commission distributed a statement that specifies conditions for national reconciliation proposed by the founding conference and the Sunni Muslim Scholars commission, mainly "defining an internationally guaranteed schedule for the withdrawal of the occupation forces, the source of the problem."

The commission stressed that "the Iraqi resistance is a legitimate right and terrorism by all its means is a rejected crime." It called "for efforts to bring back the Iraqi army after distancing bad members, according to a mechanism that can be agreed upon later."

On Thursday, Moussa met with some Shiite leaders who criticized the Arab League over what they called its late role in trying to solve the Iraqi crisis. In that meeting, Moussa stressed the need of finding out a political solution that would include all.

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