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Mubarak to Urge Saddam to Honor UN Resolutions: Report

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will make efforts in the coming days to advise Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to honor UN resolutions, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel said on Saturday.


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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will make efforts in the coming days to advise Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to honor UN resolutions, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel said on Saturday.

"Egypt will send its first message in years to Saddam, advising him to abide by UN resolutions and to benefit from international and Arab sympathy with Iraq to settle the Iraqi issue for good and in a peaceful way," the al-Jazeera said.

Mubarak is expected to embark on an Arab tour within days and hold meetings with a number of Arab leaders in Cairo on the Iraqi issue, it added.

On Friday, Mubarak welcomed US President George W. Bush's remarks on Iraq in his speech to the UN General Assembly on Thursday.

"I welcome President Bush's statements on Iraq and his leaving the door ajar for a vital role to be played by the United Nations, especially the Security Council," Mubarak said in an interview with the official MENA news agency.

"This would hopefully help find a way out, which would spare all parties negative repercussions which might be spawned by the escalation, and will also retain the sovereignty and integrity of Iraq," he stressed.

Addressing a UN General Assembly session on Thursday, Bush warned that his country is ready to act "militarily" against Iraq without the United Nations, if Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein does not honor his commitments to disarmament and UN weapons inspections.

"We can not stand by and do nothing," Bush said, adding UN weapons inspectors' failure to act would mean betting the lives of millions in a "reckless gamble."

Under UN Security Council resolutions, the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, can only be lifted when the weapons inspectors certify that Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have been destroyed.

The UN inspectors left Iraq in December 1998 on the eve of a US-British bombing campaign to punish Baghdad for not cooperating withthe arms experts. They have been barred by Iraq from returning to the country since then.

The United States has been accusing Iraq of developing weapons of mass destruction to pose a threat to security of its neighboring countries, an allegation that has been denied by Iraq.

Bush has threatened to use all tools at his disposal to topple Saddam.


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