A senior official of the Arab League (AL) on Thursday slammed a non-binding bill passed Wednesday by U.S. Senate on dividing Iraq into sectarian and ethnic entities, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
Ali al-Garoush, Director of the pan-Arab bloc's Arab Relations Department and an official in charge of the Iraqi file, called for confronting such subversive schemes firmly.
The U.S. Senate passed a non-binding bill on Wednesday calling for limiting the power of Iraq's federal government and giving more control to Iraq's ethnically divided regions.
The bill, passed with a vote of 75-23, advocates establishing a power-sharing agreement among ethnic factions similar to the one established in Bosnia in the 1990s, said U.S. media Wednesday.
According to an earlier MENA report, the U.S. Senate bill proposes to separate Iraq into Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni entities, with a federal government in Baghdad in charge of border security and oil revenues.
Garoush said he was astonished that the U.S. Senate managed to reach such a resolution, although it failed repeatedly to reach a resolution on supporting Iraq or even gradual withdrawal from Iraq.
Arab countries should help Iraq face the U.S. Senate proposal that could harm Arab interests, said Garoush, adding all efforts should be exerted to get the occupation troops out of the war-torn country.
The AL official also urged to help the Iraqi people restore stability and sovereignty of their country as well as control over Iraq's wealth.
Despite the U.S. Senate bill, the Bush Administration is unlikely to alter its policy on Iraq as it has urged the Iraqi government to establish a national unity government and has rejected the idea of dividing Iraq based on ethnic factions.
Source: Xinhua
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