Crown Prince Abdullah meets with Hakim: we continue helping the Iraqis
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz on Saturday renewed the determination of the kingdom "to support the Iraqi people so as to be able to rule themselves by themselves," during a meeting with the leader of the Iraqi Higher Council Of the Islamic Revolution, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim in Riyadh.
The spokesman for the council Mohsin al-Hakim disclosed that he leads a mediation between Iran and the American occupation forces to release Iranian detainees held by the occupation forces in Iraq.
Sources close to the meeting said that the meeting between the chairman of the Higher Council and the Saudi Crown Prince was "very positive" and dealt with "conditions in Iraq especially under the daily ( terrorist) operations which claimed the lives of more that 150 American and British soldiers."
According to Mohsin al-Hakim, Crown Prince Abdullah stressed "the need of working to draw a constitution for Iraq as soon as possible so as ( the brothers ) in Iraq will be able to run their own affairs." At the donors conference which was held in October in Madrid, Saudi Arabia vowed it intends to contribute to one billion dollars in the efforts of rebuilding Iraq, half of this sum through the Saudi fund for development, and the second half to ensure financing exports to Iraq.
Al-Hakim's visit to Saudi Arabia comes in his capacity as chairman of the Higher Council For the Islamic Revolution rather than being a member in the Iraqi Interim Governing council.
After Mohsin al-Hakim noted that the leader of the Higher Council stopped for a while in Iran on his way to Saudi Arabia, he added that the chairman of the council "submitted to the Americans a list put by the Iranian embassy in Baghdad in the names of the Iranian prisoners currently held in the Iraqi jails." And that Paul Bremer, the US administrator of Iraq "promised to cooperate." But Mohsin al-Hakim stressed that his father did not meet with any of the Iranian officials as he stopped in al-Qaseer.