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UAE sends statement on Iran actions on island to Arab body
Middle East News.Net
Tuesday 19th August, 2008 (IANS)
The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Federal National Council (FNC) has a sent a copy of its statement over the recent Iranian action of setting up offices in UAE's Abu Mousa island to the Arab Parliament Union (APU).
Earlier this month, the UAE had issued a statement calling on Iran to immediately remove the administrative offices set up at the island.
It also urged all parliaments across the world to back the UAE in its legitimate sovereignty over the three occupied islands of Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Mousa.
Now, the FNC's general secretariat has sent the statement to the APU general secretariat, which, in turn, would serve all Arab parliaments with the copies of the statement, state-run Emirates News Agency WAM reported.
The three islands lie in the eastern Arabian Gulf, around 12 km from each other, and are part of a six-island archipelago near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz.
At its 13th conference in March this year in the Iraqi city of Erbil, the APU had called upon Arab parliaments to contact Iran to cease occupation of the three islands.
It also urged Iran to translate its intention of improving ties with the Arab countries by solving the issue amicably through either direct dialogue, or resort to the International Court of Justice.
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concerned party
08-19-08, 02:16 PM |
UAE sends statement on Iran actions on island to Arab body
Hmmm, it looks like Iran is trying to position itself for even greater control of the Strait of Hormuz. It’s time to zap them. The U.S. needs to align itself with Israel and do the deed proper. Wipe them out. While we are at it, we need to set our puppet in Iraq straight about who is in control. His 'backtalk' shouldn’t be tolerated. This needs to happen quickly so we can focus on the next blaring problem - Russia. We don’t need to engage them, just position enough forces to deter them from further aggression. Yes, it is aggression - you don’t move 1200 tanks and 15000 troops into an area over the span of a few days without serious planning and preparation. Georgia was setup so Russia could implement this well thought-out strategy. Let it rain.
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