Gulf Arabs Want Polls to Lead to Broad-Based Iraq
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Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq&#39;s elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.
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Both Iraqi unity and global engagement may get a boost.
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Sunni-led Gulf Arab states, worried by rising Shi'ite power in Iraq, urged the United States on Tuesday to ensure all religious and ethnic groups take part in next month's elections, which Shi'ites look poised to win.
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President Bush sees Sunday's election in  Iraq as a beacon for freedom in the Middle East, but Arab  reformers say the poll will set back their cause.
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The Kurdish leader who hopes to become Iraq's next president pledged to try to bring the country's disaffected Sunni Arabs into the political process even though many of them stayed away from the polls in landmark elections.
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi will travel to Jordan on Tuesday to meet with Iraqis outside the country as part of attempts to get as many Iraqis as possible to participate in upcoming elections, diplomats and Iraqi officials said.
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Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq's elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.
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A member of the Shia alliance which took most of the vote in Iraq calls for national unity to build a new state.
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At Iraq's polls, once persecuted Kurds won prominence in new assembly.
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In just over seven weeks Iraqis will head to 9000 polling places to elect a 275 member transitional assembly. It will be the nation&#39;s first democratic election.
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Iraqis in Britain will be able to cast their vote in London, Manchester and Glasgow in their country's general election next month, an official of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said.
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The Arab League has formally asked its members to re-establish full diplomatic relations with Iraq. A draft resolution presented to the meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo, called on the League&#39;s 22
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A draft law allowing Iraq's oil revenues to be split between ethnic groups is sent for a vote in the country's parliament.
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UNITED NATIONS - Iraq's interim prime minister appealed for a major infusion of foreign troops and international aid to help his country hold elections by January, saying a failure to achieve democracy would be a victory for terrorism.    Standing before the leaders of many nations that opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Ayad Allawi on Friday urged the international community to set aside its differences over the legality of the invasion to oust Saddam Hussein and "stand fast by Iraq."  "We need to broaden the base of troop-contributing countries to (the multinational force) so that we would stand more determined and be better equipped to confront terrorism," he said in his first appearance before the U.N...
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Forget for the moment the White House spin about Iraq being the place where Arab pluralistic democracy will be born and from where it will spread throughout the region.
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ARAB foreign ministers called today for their nations to fully restore diplomatic relations with Iraq, but avoided the sensitive question of whether to send in Arab troops to help secure the country.
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The Middle East is entering a historic process. Iraq under US occupation, and Palestine under Israeli occupation will hold two critical elections in January (if they are not postponed).