AL chief criticizes Iraqi threats against its neighbors
Regional-Iraq, Politics, 2/16/1999

Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid has refused the threats made by Baghdad to attack air bases from which US and British planes fly to impose the two no-fly zones on the northern and southern parts of Iraq.

The AL chief added, "We refuse undermining the sovereignty of any state."

He continued, replying to questions put by journalists in Kuwait on Monday, "We do not accept threats, and problems cannot be sorted out by launching threats, rather by dialogue and negotiations."

Abdul Meguid recalled the statement released by the ministerial meeting of the Arab foreign ministers of January 24 in Cairo which stressed the need for Iraq's commitment to UN resolutions. He reiterated his call to maintain reconciliation among the Arab states and welcomed the decision adopted by the UN Security Council to form three committees to review the Iraqi issues: weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian conditions, the question of Kuwaiti prisoners and the return of properties to the Kuwaitis.

Abdul Meguid, however, started a visit to Kuwait on Sunday and met on Monday with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah and Crown Prince Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah.

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