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S. Arabia Supports Iraqi People to Choose Their Own Leaders

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it seeks no role in drawing up a future Iraqi government and supports the Iraqi people to choose their own leaders, the official KUNA news agency reported.

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Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it seeks no role in drawing up a future Iraqi government and supports the Iraqi people to choose their own leaders, the official KUNA news agency reported.

Speaking to reporters in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said his country would deal with the future Iraqi government to be chosen by the Iraqi people withinthe framework of the international legitimacy.

Saudi Arabia is keen to exert utmost efforts to maintain Iraq's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, he said.

It is important that a government, accepted by the Iraqi people and recognized by the United Nations, would rule future Iraq on thebasis of constitutional administration, he stressed.

He also warned of the state of chaos currently prevailing in Iraqi cities, saying that would lead to the further deterioration of the situation and unprecedented human disasters.

He attributed looting in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to food shortage, while calling for an urgent international humanitarian aid for the Iraqi people.

In this respect, he announced an 80-million-dollar relief aid toIraq, saying that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom will join other countries in Iraq's reconstruction process.

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