Saleh calls for an immediate withdrawal of the American soldiers from Iraq

The Yemeni President Ali Abdullha Saleh has called for an "immediate" withdrawal of the American soldiers from Iraq and warned the American authorities that it provokes the hatred of Muslim by supporting Israel in the conflict in the Middle East.

In an international conference includes some 27 Arab and African countries in Sanaa, Saleh said that one year has passed and none of the slogans advocated by the occupation forces is implemented to that it will bring in "security, stability, justice, freedom and democracy in Iraq," when these forces invaded Iraq in March 2003.

He added "it was proved to the whole world that no weapons of mass destruction exist. We want immediate withdrawal for the occupation forces and we do not want to see blood-shed. We want to have a recovering Iraq coming back to its Arab and international community."

The Yemeni President called on the US to shoulder its responsibilities towards current escalations in the Middle East and not to be biased to Israel.