Regional efforts continue regarding Arab summit on Iraq
Yemeni diplomatic sources said that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will direct messages to leaders, kings and presidents of the Arab states, inviting them to convene an urgent Arab summit to deal with the developments in the Arab states, including the US - British attacks on Iraq.
It is expected that Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdul Qader Bajmal will make an Arab tour in support of Yemen's call to convene the summit.
Algerian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Aziz Saba declared his country's support for the Arab summit called for by Yemen after the US - British strikes against Iraq.
El-Saba said his country urges convening an organized Arab summit to maintain a minimum of solidarity and guarantee the Arab people's rights that these summits are for the benefit of all the countries.
The spokesman referred to his country's position denouncing the strikes, which are outside international legitimacy.
He added that the Algerian Red Crescent Society will provide food and medical aid to express the Algerian people's solidarity with the Iraqi people.
MAP reported that the Moroccan Chamber of Advisors stressed Tuesday the need to hold an Arab summit over the crisis in Iraq following US-British missile strikes.
The upper chamber of the parliament, which held an extraordinary session in solidarity with the Iraqi people, also stressed the importance of reconciliation among Arab states and denounced "the coward aggression" that would not have been possible were it not for the "weakness" of the Arab nation.
The Moroccan advisors joined their colleagues at the house of representatives (lower chamber) who called on Monday for an extraordinary Arab summit to adopt a unified position on the anti-Iraq aggression and embargo.
The house which held an extraordinary session in solidarity with the Iraqi people called the government to take all measures and initiatives to boost Arab solidarity and lift the 8-year long embargo enforced against Iraq.
The representatives, who observed a minute of silence in the memory of the US-British raids' victims, also condemned these attacks as "a blatant violation of international legality and human rights principles." They expressed support for the Iraqi people in this hardship, arguing that the reasons given to justify the aggression are "only opening the way for the law of the jungle and state terrorism."