| Iraq’s Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi called on Egypt and other Arab states on Wednesday to reopen their embassies in Baghdad to help preserve what he termed Iraq’s ‘endangered’ Arab identity. “It is important to us that Arab and Egyptian representation in Iraq be permanent and complete, to preserve Arab identity in Iraq because this identity is in danger,” Hashemi told reporters after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. “A responsible Arab stance is necessary to confront this danger.” |