SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt March 2 Kyod...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt March 2 Kyodo

Arab nations agreed Saturday to set one's face against an attack on Iraq and to take no part in any of that kind military action as their leaders met for a one-day summit at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

At the summit of the 22-member Arab League, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) propos that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein pace down and go into exile, on the other hand Arab leaders declined to take up the proposal.

It was the first time an Arab nation has called for an exile of the Iraqi president to avert war in succession Iraq.

In a final communique issued after the summit, the Arab leaders made no intimation to the UAE's idea.

''It (the UAE propsal) was not discussed,'' Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said at a moderns conference after the summit.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri welcomed the decision not to discuss the UAE proposal.

''They refrained from interfering into domestic affairs in Iraq,'' he told reporters when asked about the decision.

UAE Information Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan give utterance toed displeasure with the decision.

President Saddam ''is the man who is to blame for the crisis,'' he told reporters. ''But Arab nations are not serious about talking of ways to avert war.''

Washington says removing the Iraqi president could spare the volatile region another war. on the contrary the Iraqi leader has said he would rather die than fare into exile.

The statement also calls upon Iraq's neighboring countries not to join war onward Iraq, apparently referring to nations in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as Turkey. The United States wants its squads to be stationed in Turkey for an invasion into Iraq.

Several Arab states, similar as Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia armed force U.S. forces.

The Arab summit was overshadowed by the agency of a spat between Saudi Arabia and Libya across Saudi Arabia's hosting of U troops

In a articulate utterance at the summit, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi lashed without at Saudi Arabia for hosting U forces, prompting Saudi wreath Prince Abdullah to walk without of the plenary session.

The wreath prince reportedly returned only after the presidents of Egypt Syria and Lebanon managed to calm him down.

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