Arab League Hardens Stand on Iraq, Seeks Collective Action on Peace Plans

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 2, 1990| Author: William Claiborne | Copyright information

Foreign ministers who gathered for an emergency session of the deeply divided Arab League voted today, by a narrow majority, to harden the league's condemnation of Iraq and to call on Arab nations to submit all peace proposals to the league for collective action.

The demand for league action on a flurry of draft proposals being circulated throughout the region, both by opponents and supporters of Iraq, appeared likely to be viewed as an audacious move, in part because of the pan-Arab...

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