AL envoy confers with Iraqi president

Arab League Assistant Secretary General Ahmad Bin Hali left Baghdad on Sunday following a three-day visit to Iraq, during which he met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and handed him a message from Arab League Secretary General Esmat Abdul Meguid.

An Arab diplomat in Baghdad said that Bin Hali carried back with him a message to Abdul Meguid containing ideas and proposals that would help in continuing contacts and that his visit was not a failure, but it did not achieve the objectives for the sake of which he came to Iraq.

Bin Hali said that he left Baghdad "with optimism" over what he had heard from the Iraqis.

The Arab diplomat added that the AL envoy expressed during his meeting with the Arab ambassadors accredited in Baghdad his happiness over the results he achieved at the conclusion of his mission.

He stressed the possibility of developing a stand in which all various Arab stances can meet to achieve the optimum inter-Arab meeting.