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Arab States Appreciate China's Position on Iraq

The League of Arab States (LAS) highly appreciates China's position on the Iraq disarmament issue, Mohamed Fouad Serry, interim head of the LAS mission in Beijing, told Xinhua Friday.

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The League of Arab States (LAS) highly appreciates China's position on the Iraq disarmament issue, Mohamed Fouad Serry, interim head of the LAS mission in Beijing, told Xinhua Friday.

Serry said the LAS appreciated the role that China played as a permanent member of the UN Security Council in trying to defuse the Iraq crisis.

He said the LAS and its member states maintained close relations with China and often discussed the Iraq issue and other issues with China.

Amr Moussa, secretary general of the LAS, met Chinese ambassador to Egypt Liu Xiaoming on February 20. Moussa spoke highly of China's principled position on the Iraq issue, which conforms to China's independent foreign policy of peace based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence.

While the Israeli troops occupied Palestinian territory, Serry pointed out, Arab countries needed peace and stability more than ever, and military action against Iraq would undoubtedly further inflame the situation in the region.

Serry said the LAS summit meeting, held this month in Egypt's Sharmel-Sheikh, had paid special attention toward the severe threat that Iraq was facing.

Any threat to the security and peace of one Arab country was a threat to that of all Arab countries, according to a resolution passed at the summit. The summit firmly rejected military action against Iraq and called for granting enough time to the international weapons inspection team to complete its task in Iraq and for the team to maintain its objectivity.

As a regional organization of Arab countries, the LAS was working closely with the international community headed by the United Nations (UN), and other international organizations, Serry said, adding that the LAS was fully committed to safeguarding international peace and security and achieving regional and international stability and development.

Serry spoke positively on the role that the international community played in trying to peacefully settle the Iraq crisis and called for all countries, including China, to try every means to avoid war on the condition that Iraq fully complied with the UN's Resolution 1441.

Serry said Arab leaders at the LAS summit meeting agreed to form a committee composed of Lebanon, Bahrain, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and the secretary general himself to promote the position of Arab nations, consult with other countries, especially members of the UN Security Council, including China, and study and seek solutions to the crisis and other challenges and threats that Arabcountries faced.

The LAS might convene another summit meeting soon to fulfill the tasks left by the Sharmel-Sheikh summit meeting, Serry revealed.

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