AL-SHEIKH, EGYPT, MAY 4, SPA -- PRINCE SAUD AL-FAISAL, THE FOREIGN MINISTER, SAID THE KINGDOM VIEWS IRAQ AS A FRATERNAL COUNTRY AND AS AN INDIVISIBLE PART OF THE ARAB AND MUSLIM NATION. ADDRESSING THE INTERNATIONAL MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE FOR IRAQ'S NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES, PRINCE SAUD SAID THE KINGDOM VIEWS EQUALLY TO THE IRAQIS IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR ETHNIC OR SECTARIAN DIFFERENCES. HE EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE DETERIORATING SITUATION IN IRAQ, AND SAID THE SECTARIAN STRIFE AND TERROR ACTS WILL HAVE AN ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE SECURITY AND STABILITY OF IRAQ. PRINCE SAUD UNDERLINED THE IMPORTANCE OF TAKING THE APPROPRIATE MEASURES FOR ENDING THE TRAGEDY OF IRAQ. PRINCE SAUD, WHO LEADS THE SAUDI DELEGATION TO THE MEETING, SAID EFFORTS SHOULD BE EXERTED TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF IRAQ AND TO AVOID ANY FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN ITS DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. PRINCE SAUD SAID IF IRAQ IS INVOLVED IN A DESTRUCTIVE CIVIL WAR, THEN THAT WILL PAVE THE WAY FOR ESCALATION OF TERROR ACTS AND SECTARIAN STRIFE WHICH WILL HARM THE ENTIRE REGION. --MORE
