Arab league calls on Iraqi sides to calm down

The Arab League yesterday called for halting the use of military force in Iraq and urged the various Iraqi sides to resort to calm and dialogue.

The spokesman for the secretary general of the Arab League Amr Moussa, Husam Zaki said that the AL chief calls on " various sides in Iraq to seek calmness and resort to dialogue away from the use of force." He added that Moussa "follows up with great concern news on the confrontation which harvest daily scores of the lives of Iraqis, especially in Najaf city, and urges all sides involved in the confrontations to cling to interests of the people of Iraq rather than other interests."

Zaki said that " in the current conditions which Iraq is passing, political dialogue is considered the appropriate means to put the country into the right track and getting the foreign forces out of it."