Visiting Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa on Sunday affirmed that Arab countries reject and will not take part in any military coalition against any Arab country, including Iraq.
In a meeting with chief editors of Jordan's official Petra news agency and major newspapers, Moussa said that the recent statements by the Jordanian and Kuwaiti governments on refusing to use their soils to strike Iraq clearly express the collective Arab position in this regard.
He hoped that after Arab diplomacies succeed in making Iraq restore contacts with the United Nations, "the ghost" of striking Iraq will disappear.
Moussa arrived here earlier in the day to take part in a ceremony later this week to proclaim Amman as this year's capital of Arab culture.
After his arrival, Moussa met with Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Ragheb over the latest developments on the Palestinian lands and the possibilities of a US-led military strike against Iraq.
Both sides agreed that the Arab peace initiative, adopted at the Arab summit in Lebanon on March 27-28, should be implemented to revive the peace process in the region.
During the meeting, Abu Ragheb rejected foreign press reports that the United States is using Jordanian territories and airspace for a military action against Iraq, and denied the existence of any US bases or troops on the Jordanian territories.
Jordan stand opposed to any military strikes against any Arab country, he stressed.
(People's Daily July 15, 2002)
