BAGHDAD, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi on Sunday issued arrest warrants for three Iraqi participants in a meeting calling for the normalizing ties with Israel, a proposal rejected by the Iraqi government.
A court in Baghdad issued arrest warrants for tribal leader Wisam al-Hardan, former lawmaker Mithal al-Alousi, and Sahar Kareem al-Taie, an employee at the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council said in a statement.
They participated in what the Iraqi government called an "illegal meeting" held two days ago by some Iraqi tribal figures and individuals in Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.
The statement added that the judicial council will take legal measures against the other participants in the Erbil meeting once the authorities got their full names.
The call for normalizing ties with Israel in the Erbil meeting was condemned and rejected by both the government and the people. According to the Iraqi laws, Iraq has no diplomatic relations with Israel and Iraqis are prohibited from travelling there.
"The concept of normalization is constitutionally, legally, and politically rejected in the Iraqi state. The government clearly expressed Iraq's firm position in support of the Palestinian right in establishing an independent state with al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital," Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said in a statement on Saturday.
On Friday, hundreds of Iraqi individuals from several Iraqi provinces held a meeting in Erbil, calling on Iraq to join the Abraham Accords and establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Enditem
