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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (758028)	1/25/2007 2:45:54 AM
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LOL!!!!!! ARAB LEAGUE wants UN to keep Iraq from splitting into smaller, representative countries --- so they can keep some of the oil wealth, and keep their own repressed minorities from demanding freedom and self-goverment! They want to induce the 'UN', or the 'US' to do their fighting for them, to save their bacon, to keep their repressive Monarchies in place, their corrupt regimes humming along, their minorities repressed, and oil wealth rolling into their accounts! LOL! (Think anyone in the West will be STUPID enough to fall for this?) Arab League Pushes UN Resolution for United Iraq (Update1) By Janine Zacharia bloomberg.com Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The Arab League, concerned that Iraq could splinter, is pushing for a United Nations Security Council resolution to ensure the country is never partitioned and that oil wealth is fairly distributed among Iraqis, the organization's top official said. Secretary-General Amr Moussa, in an interview today on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said he pitched the idea to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to Egypt earlier this month. While Rice endorsed the principles he outlined for the resolution, Moussa said she didn't embrace the idea of formalizing them at the UN. ``My suggestion is we agree on certain basic principles to be adopted by the Security Council,' Moussa said. Besides rejecting partition and advocating fair distribution of oil money, Moussa said the resolution should urge the disarming of militias and stress the importance of citizenship as a unifier of Iraqis. The measure also should push for reconciliation among religious factions, he said. The U.S. shares the Arabs' concern that stability is slipping, and is sending more troops to Baghdad in an attempt to avert a civil war. Violence carried out by militias and insurgents killed more than 30,000 Iraqis last year and weakened efforts to achieve national unity. U.S. View State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in an e-mail that he was checking on the U.S. position on a UN resolution as described by Moussa. McCormack said the U.S. is ``very strongly in favor of both territorial integrity and fair distribution of oil patrimony proceeds.' Turkey and Iran, which aren't part of the Arab League, also are seeking to exert influence over Iraq's course. Turkey, a U.S. ally, insists that Iraq stays whole. It wants the semi- autonomous Kurdish provinces in Iraq's north to defer to a national government, in part to tamp down any separatist aspirations of its own Kurdish population. The U.S. has accused Iran, which has ties to Iraqi Shiite political leaders, of sending agents into Iraq to create unrest and support attacks on American forces. U.S. forces raided an Iranian consulate in northern Iraq on Jan. 11 and detained Iranians it said were aiding the rebellion. Iran has protested the action. Davos Themes Iraq, the situation in Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort are prominent themes at this year's World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of political and business leaders. Iraqi Vice Presidents Adel Abdel Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashemi and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh are due to address the conference tomorrow. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and Jordan's King Abdullah II are due to speak and could meet. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, rattled by protests in Beirut, is scheduled to arrive on Jan. 26. Asked about President George W. Bush's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq, Moussa said the Arab states were less concerned about force levels and more anxious about ``what kind of Iraq they are going to leave behind' when the U.S. withdraws. ``All of us are in a fix in Iraq,' he said. ``Everybody's worried.' Moussa, who travels today to Paris for a fundraising conference for Lebanon, urged donors to make pledges of financial support for reconstruction even with protests in the Lebanese capital. To contact the reporter on this story: Janine Zacharia in Davos at jzacharia@bloomberg.net Last Updated: January 24, 2007 13:03 EST