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Auchi calls upon Western Governments to work seriously to stop blood shed in Middle East.
London - The Anglo Arab Organisation in cooperation with the Britain club held a political meeting Monday entitled: “Peace and Prosperity in the Middle East”. Christopher Ruddy, Head of NewsMax, the giant American Media Group, at his speech as a guest, talked about the features of the present problem in the Middle East and the American role in it. Nigel Evans, MP, Head of the All-Parties Group in the British Parliament, talked about the way to correct the relation between the West and the Middle East at this decisive era in history.
Nadhmi Auchi, President of the Anglo Arab Organisation said in his welcoming speech: “My duty as the President of AAO is to raise these issues and help to build bridges between the east and the west. Through understanding and working hard together, we hope that peace and prosperity in the Middle East can be attained, What is happening in the Middle East is not acceptable or justified in any way, and I would like to appeal here from this stage to all international government which have influences in the Middle East to gather and stop this bloodshed and massacre”. He added: “Dialogue is the only way that can get us together out of this problem. We reiterate our role as an organisation in building the dialogue bridges between Arab and Muslims on one side, and Britain, Europe and the West in general on the other side”. Jeremy Bradshaw, Head of the Britain Club said: “this is the right time to talk about the Middle East, especially that we are living the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. It is not a secret that Iraq is descending quickly into a civil war and that it has become a confrontation field as the crisis between Iran and the United States is increasing”. He added: “We also personify here that the Palestinian problem is slipping away from solutions and going towards a confrontation between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Christopher Ruddy, President and CEO of NewsMax Group, which he has been named by the Newsweek as one of America’s top 20 most influential new media personality in American, while talking about the relation between the United States and the Middle East said: “We face a crucial period in the region and we can identify the American’s mistakes there”. He added: “I was always supporting the conservative views in America and considering the former American President, Ronald Regan who deserved appreciation for the conservative values and through his belief in it, he succeeded in dismantling the Soviet Union by relying on basic elements in his policy: Preserving values; making America an example for the rest of the world; spreading democratic ideas; not entering international conflicts without the international support and the participation of many allies; and emphasizes the need to have a clear plan to enter and a more clearer plan of withdrawal from any conflict or problem”. “What President Bush did, is violating all those recommendations: The world is scared of the American power more than admiring its value; and the Democratic ideas that is spread by force, pressure and occupation of other nations, which have no history in the democratic experience; and the war on Iraq was carried out with one ally and an International unprecedented opposition; and it is clear that there is no plan for stability in Iraq and withdrawal of troops," he said. British Nigel Evans, MP said in his speech “In front of the present problems I cannot find anything that is equal to dialogue. We have to have a dialogue with the Arab world to get out of the problem. We should understand their problems and fury caused by Western politics”. Richard Burden, MP, said: “I just came from a meeting with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Jack Straw. I would like assure you British politicians are very worried of what has happened in Jericho and the continuous political and diplomatic protection of Israel in its violating and exceeding policies and cruel actions against the Palestinians” “I tell you the truth: The problem will not be solved and there will be no stability in Iraq as long as the Palestinian-Israeli problem is not solved”, he added. Keith Vaz, MP, conducted the dialogue with the guests who all agreed that Western Policy in the Middle East is suffers from many major deficiencies that need comprehensive review. The Anglo Arab Organisation is a non-governmental organisation that tries to build political and economic bridges between Britain and the Arab World, and the Britain Club is the cultural and intellectual front of the British Conservative Party.
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