The former Special Adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Al-Akhdar Al-Ibrahimi, said on Monday in Dubai that the American invasion to Iraq "has destroyed the State and has not built it", adding that the adoption of a policy of decentralization or the division of Iraq would affect the oil sector.
The veteran Algerian diplomat said, in the Arab Strategy Forum hosted in Dubai, that the adoption of "a policy of decentralization in Iraq or the division of this country will cause chaos in Iraq and the region".
Al-Ibrahimi pointed out in particular to the oil agreements being prepared between Kurdistan, which enjoys autonomy, and foreign companies, specially the agreement with a Norwijan company, to explore for oil in this region in northern Iraq, despite the opposition of the central government to such conventions.
Al-Ibrahimi said that the situation "reflects the fading of the authority of the central government, which opposes this type of conventions and this is very dangerous" in light of the present escalation of sectarian tension in the country.
On the other hand, Al-Ibrahimi took on the Arab countries the lack of commitment in the issue of the conflict in Darfor, western of Sudan.
He said in this context, "the whole world is feeding them, while the Arab effort is very modest" in a reference to the victims of the civil war in Darfur, which the United Nations says it left, since it began in 2003, more than 200 thousand people dead and 52 million displaced persons.
The Arab Strategic Forum has been organized for three days under the title "Creating opportunities from the global variables", attended by dozens of government officials, businessmen and experts from different parts of the world.
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