Four Arab states appoint ambassadors to Baghdad

Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait decided to dispatch four ambassadors to Iraq and thereby to be the first four Arab states to appoint diplomats at that level in Baghdad since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

The Iraqi foreign minister Hoshiar Zeibari said in a speech circulated to journalists in the conference for supporting Iraq in Brussels " I salute Egypt which gave the example for the countries of the region by its decision to appoint the first Arab ambassador. We do hope to receive him very soon in new Iraq." One Iraqi official noted that Cairo sent a high ranking diplomat to Baghdad in May.

The Jordanian foreign minister Farouk al-Qasrawi announced dispatching a Jordanian ambassador to Baghdad "very soon." Both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait said they intend to do the same. Canada did the same.

Zeibari said that the European Union and the Arab League decided to open two representation offices in Baghdad. Worthy mentioning that each of Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Iran and Turkey have diplomatic representation in Iraq.