Arab nations postpone request for General Assembly meeting on Iraq

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Arab nations postpone request for General Assembly meeting on Iraq

The General Committee of the UN General Assembly has postponed considering a request by thegroup of Arab members to hold a special session on Iraq, a spokesman for the General Assembly said Thursday.

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The General Committee of the UN General Assembly has postponed considering a request by the group of Arab members to hold a special session on Iraq, a spokesman for the General Assembly said Thursday.

The postponement was made at the request of Yemen, chairman of the League of Arab States, spokesman Richard Sydenham told a pressconference.

"This morning, the chairman of the General Committee announced that the postponement had been requested of the Arab group ... forthe inclusion of a new agenda item under the situation in Iraq," Syndenham said.

"There would therefore not be a meeting tomorrow morning as hadbeen previously announced," Syndenham said.

Earlier this week, the Yemeni mission wrote to Jan Kavan, chairman of the General Assembly, calling for an inclusion of the Iraq issue on its agenda.

The letter also urged the General Assembly to pass a resolutioncalling for a cease-fire in Iraq and respect of Iraq's sovereigntyand territorial integrity.

Such an initiative needs support of 15 members of the 28-memberGeneral Committee.

Diplomats here believed that lack of support for such a resolution might be the reason for the Arab group to put its request on hold.

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