Iraq condemns UAE call for Saddam’s exile

IRAQ poured scorn on the United Arab Emirates yesterday for urging Saddam Hussein to go into exile, but the small Persian Gulf state pressed on seeking support for the proposal, calling it the only way to avert war.

The call for Saddam to go the first ever made publicly by an Arab nation raised an outcry at an Arab summit in Egypt on Saturday.

However, the Emirates submitted the proposal again at a forum of Gulf nations yesterday and said it would do so later this week at an Islamic conference.