S Arabia calls regional meeting on Iraq
RIYADH: The foreign ministers of countries neighbouring Iraq will meet in Riyadh on Friday to review the fall out of the war, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Monday.
The "emergency regional conference" was called by Saudi Arabia on instructions from King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah, Prince Saud said in a statement carried by the official SPA agency. "The conference comes in response to the current circumstances and developments in Iraq, which affect the Iraqi people in particular, and the repercussions on the countries of the region in general," he said.
Prince Saud, who made the announcement after a surprise visit to Damascus on Monday, did not name the countries which would take part in the meeting.
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Iran, all of which border Iraq, and Egypt held a regional conference on January 23 in Istanbul in a bid to prevent the US war on Iraq.
Following the fall of Baghdad, Saudi Arabia has been active diplomatically as a new situation emerges in the Gulf. |
