Is Baghdad Managing the Arab League?
Despite commitments Iraq made during the recent Arab Summit in Beirut to honor Kuwait’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and to resolve outstanding problems between the two countries, Kuwaiti officials at the highest level have been skeptical of Iraq’s true intentions and the extent of its compliance. On May 3, Kuwait asserted its refusal to discuss its conflict with Iraq anywhere except in the U.N., and expressed its weariness with the attempts of Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League, to transfer Iraqi/Kuwaiti issues from the U.N. to the Arab League. An op-ed article published by the Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan cautions Moussa not to trust the Iraqi regime and asks: “What makes the Secretary General of the Arab League think that he could succeed [in making Iraq comply with its commitments] where even the U.N. Security Council has failed? It is no wonder that the Secretary General failed in his attempts to transfer the [Iraqi/Kuwaiti] file from New York to the offices of th
