Arab League Silent on Crisis in Gulf
The Arab League will not comment on the military conflict in the Persian Gulf and does not plan to hold an emergency summit on the crisis, a spokesman said Sunday.
“We have made a number of resolutions and our position is clear,” Adnan Omran, an aide to the league’s secretary general, said in an interview. “We have expressed our hope that there will be peace, and those hopes were not realized. Obviously we still hope there will be peace.”
The Arab League, which condemned Iraq in the days following its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, has been deeply divided by the crisis and some Western diplomats suggest its silence speaks volumes.
“There is a fear if the league attempts to tackle this explosive issue, then it could be irrevocably split,” said one Western diplomat based in Cairo. “Better not to get involved than to be destroyed.”
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