al-Hasani
ELITE MEMBER
- Joined
- Feb 1, 2013
- Messages
- 14,060
- Reaction score
- 43
- Country
- Location
Salim Al-Jabouri
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS
Published — Friday 21 November 2014
Last update 21 November 2014 12:13 am
Iraqi Parliament's president, Salim Al-Jabouri, claimed during his visit to the Kingdom, that he is trying his best to bring Iraq back to the Arab fold once again. He also hoped that the Kingdom will help Iraq renew bonds with other Arab countries.
Al-Jabouri confirmed that the Saudi ambassador will return to Baghdad within a month, hoping his return will contribute to boost relations between the two countries. However, he pointed out, there is still need to make more diplomatic efforts to hike the economic and political cooperation with Saudi Arabia.
"Iranian intervention in Iraq came as a result of the absence of an Arab role in the political scene of Iraq," Al-Jabouri said after his meeting with Deputy Crown Prince Muqrin in Riyadh. At the same time, he showed appreciation of Saudi Arabia's decision not to interfere in Iraq's internal affairs.
"We hope to see Saudi Arabia playing an active role at this critical stage to help Iraq to return to the Arab fold,” Al-Jabouri said.
In response to a question about the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi's decision to exclude a number of military commanders, the Iraqi official claimed that his people want to face IS, while Sunni tribes are looking for military support provided by the government to protect them. With this decision, the government is trying to avoid repeating previous mistakes.
"Saudi-Iraqi relations were marked by the recent visit of the Iraqi president, who discussed a number of issues with Saudi leaders. However, the two sides need to approach how to deal with terrorism," Al-Jabouri added.
Iraq seeks KSA help to return to Arab fold | Arab News
It's time for the leadership of KSA and Iraq to regain the trust and work for the betterment of our shared neighborhood and the Arab world. Both countries are neighbors and have extremely close millennium old ties on all levels be it historical, ancestral, religious, cultural, geographical etc. It's a shame that you have some people from both countries that hate each other. Sometimes from the same extended families, clans, tribes etc. even. Ironically the Iraqi Shia Arabs from the South have closer ties to KSA than anyone else in Iraq. It's practically the same people as those in nearby KSA.
There is no need for the Saudi Arabian Sunni Muslims (whether Shafi'i, Hanbali, Maliki, Hanafi or Sufi) to only like and trust the Iraqi Sunni Arabs and likewise there is no need for the Iraqi Shia Arabs to only trust the Saudi Arabian Shias (whether Twelver or Ismail).
The neighbors won't change so it is better to cooperate on a government level and more importantly on a human to human level (which already happens mind you) than having animosity for an eternity. It's something very recent too. If there was trust Basra could be connected with the GCC railway and Iraqis and vice versa could visit all the way to Salalah in Oman and likewise people could do business together. Now the border is sealed. Well, that's the ME of today.
One day we might destroy our "Mental Berlin Wall" (as I sometimes call the state of the Arab world today and Muslim world) and do what the Europeans are doing now by large. Cooperating and prospering together. People of much more diverse backgrounds and which much, much less in common have proven that this can happen and so have we Arabs ourselves for centuries upon centuries in the past. There is no excuse.
Last edited:
