Saudi Arabia says convening Arab summit requires good preparations for success
Saudi Arabia, Politics, 1/2/1999

Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Saudi Arabia's second deputy prime minister and minister of defense and aviation denied that Riyadh is hesitant toward attending an Arab summit.

He said that Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Cooperation Council states want the summit meeting to have solid preparations and to be based on genuine efforts to serve the Arab and Islamic states.

Prince Sultan renewed Saudi Arabia's refusal to use its territories to launch strikes against Iraq, saying "Saudi Arabia was never asked to and it will not agree on such a procedure."

The Saudi prince said "I do not believe that there is an escalation between our brothers in Iraq and the United States, where it is a misunderstanding, and I hope that our brothers in Iraq could know their interests well, and so our friends as well, have to seek Iraq's interest.

"In the end the solution will be that everybody has to stick to the United Nations and Security Council resolutions," he said, adding that his country opposes the escalation of the crisis and hoped to calm the crisis down.

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