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Ben Helli, to visit Baghdad to put the finishing touches to the Arab Summit
21/01/2012
Cairo - Isra-Khalifa
Starts high-level delegation headed by Deputy Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Ben Helli, visited Baghdad on Monday to finalize arrangements for the Arab summit to be held in Baghdad next March.
This was announced by the "morning" the representative of Iraq to the Arab League Qais Al-Azzawi, indicating that the delegation consists of ten diplomats from the staff of the League of Arab specialists final arrangements for holding the Arab summit. He said al-Azzawi said the Secretariat of the Arab League confirms the Arab Summit in Baghdad, and Iraq ready to hold the Arab summit over its territory, and denied that there are Gulf countries demanding the transfer of the summit outside of Iraq or postponed. It quoted a Kuwaiti newspaper last week Kuwaiti diplomatic sources as saying that there is a tendency Gulf to reject the forthcoming Arab Summit in Baghdad during the month of March next , and postponed to a later date, until the completion of the file the Syrian crisis, "but that the National Alliance criticized these moves, saying:" Any move by any country will not affect the holding of the summit .. Perhaps we believe that efforts should be intensified to speed up the summit and not postponed. "Azzawi stressed the importance of holding the summit in Baghdad, especially after the revolutions of the Arab in the region and the changes that took place on the Arab scene. Meanwhile, said the spokesman of Baghdad Operations team Qassim Atta, who is accompanied by Defense Minister on his visit to Cairo, the security environment well prepared in time for the summit in Baghdad. Atta said in a statement the "morning": "We have given our opinion to the government, our ability to protect guests of Iraq during the summit," he said, adding that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the formation of a supreme security committee oversees the issue of security in Baghdad, the committee has visited Cairo three times and reviewed the necessary security arrangements that can be taken during the summit and in the light of this we had a joint coordination with the Egyptian side. " He said Atta: "A delegation from the Arab League visited Iraq and noted the administrative arrangements and security .. and we are still held in Baghdad. And they will find a very good security conditions, noting that there is no security of any country in the world 100%.
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