Arab League chief, al-Sharaa discuss the situation in Iraq
Regional, Politics, 1/29/1999

Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid on Thursday made a telephone call to Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa in his capacity as chairman of the ministerial committee assigned by the Arab foreign ministers to follow up moves with the UN Security Council to lift the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq.

In a statement he made to reporters in Cairo on Thursday, the AL chief said he also made telephone calls to several Arab foreign ministers who are members of the committee in order to crystallize the Arab stand and the future plan of the committee in coordination and cooperation with the permanent members of the UN Security Council to lift the economic embargo imposed on Iraq.

He added that al-Sharaa will for his part make contacts with the Arab ministerial committee concerned with following up the Arab move with members of the UN Security Council to lift the sanctions imposed on Iraq in order to draw the Arab plan to be submitted to the committee's forthcoming meeting to be convened within days under the chairmanship of al-Sharaa and at his own invitation.

Abdul Meguid continued that the AL general secretariat will prepare a work paper in light of the statement released by the recent meeting of the Arab foreign ministers concerning the Iraqi crisis to be submitted to the forthcoming meeting of the ministerial committee in Damascus.

The ministerial committee includes Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Bahrain in its capacity as the only Arab member at the UN Security Council, one or two Maghreb Arab countries -- likely Tunisia and Algeria -- and the secretary general of the Arab League.

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