Sirte, Libya (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari ordered to get out of high-level conference (summit) meeting this week to protest Arabic among the Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi with a high Iraqi officials, said an Arab diplomat told AFP on Tuesday.
However Zebaru, who was in Libya's Mediterranean city of Sirte to attend a meeting of Arab foreign ministers and represent Iraq at the summit on Saturday and Sunday, later told AFP that he had not decided to follow-up.
"No decision now. Then ...," he said, when he came out of the foreign ministers level meetings with his counterpart, Foreign Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Mohammed al-Sabbah.
"I am here now. I'm hungry, I need to eat something," she said when she went out to eat.
According to the diplomat, Zebari Maliki ordered to pack up and go home at the time the foreign ministers begin meeting to prepare for the summit this weekend.
"Zebari Maliki ordered to leave the meeting Thursday in protest at a meeting held with the delegation Kadhafi Iraqi opposition figures," the diplomat said.
He ordered that the Iraqi delegation to the Arab summit will be called home, leaving Iraq's permanent representative to the Arab League in Sirte.
Chairman of the pan-Arab organization comprising 22 countries, Amr Mussa, met privately with Zebari at breakfast on Thursday, trying to hold a diplomatic row between Libya and Iraq, and persuade the Iraqi foreign minister to remain to take part for the summit.
Several Arab foreign ministers are also trying to persuade Iraq's top diplomat to stay in Sirte, but Zebari said that he had no choice but to return to his country, said the diplomat added.
Libya's official news agency, JANA, said that Kadhafi had received delefasi high-level Iraqi opposition leaders on Sunday, including former members of the outlawed Baath party after executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi delegation that included former Oil Minister Issam Shalabi, in addition to the former Baathist leader Omar al-Ali Wrong.
Iraq will host the Arab summit next year, after delayed from this year because of political tensions and security concerns
However Zebaru, who was in Libya's Mediterranean city of Sirte to attend a meeting of Arab foreign ministers and represent Iraq at the summit on Saturday and Sunday, later told AFP that he had not decided to follow-up.
"No decision now. Then ...," he said, when he came out of the foreign ministers level meetings with his counterpart, Foreign Minister of Kuwait, Sheikh Mohammed al-Sabbah.
"I am here now. I'm hungry, I need to eat something," she said when she went out to eat.
According to the diplomat, Zebari Maliki ordered to pack up and go home at the time the foreign ministers begin meeting to prepare for the summit this weekend.
"Zebari Maliki ordered to leave the meeting Thursday in protest at a meeting held with the delegation Kadhafi Iraqi opposition figures," the diplomat said.
He ordered that the Iraqi delegation to the Arab summit will be called home, leaving Iraq's permanent representative to the Arab League in Sirte.
Chairman of the pan-Arab organization comprising 22 countries, Amr Mussa, met privately with Zebari at breakfast on Thursday, trying to hold a diplomatic row between Libya and Iraq, and persuade the Iraqi foreign minister to remain to take part for the summit.
Several Arab foreign ministers are also trying to persuade Iraq's top diplomat to stay in Sirte, but Zebari said that he had no choice but to return to his country, said the diplomat added.
Libya's official news agency, JANA, said that Kadhafi had received delefasi high-level Iraqi opposition leaders on Sunday, including former members of the outlawed Baath party after executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi delegation that included former Oil Minister Issam Shalabi, in addition to the former Baathist leader Omar al-Ali Wrong.
Iraq will host the Arab summit next year, after delayed from this year because of political tensions and security concerns