Meanwhile: Arabs snub US over Iraq troops
BBC: Arabs snub US over Iraq troops
Last Updated: Tuesday, 5 August, 2003, 16:16 GMT 17:16 UK
The Iraq war was a major blow to the Arab League
Arab League foreign ministers have ruled out sending troops to help US forces to stabilise Iraq.
The ministers, meeting in Cairo on Tuesday, agreed that sending Arab forces "cannot be considered in the current circumstances," the organisation's secretary-general Amr Moussa said.
"We should work to put an end to the occupation and allow the Iraqi people to form a national government," the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.