(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency)
The Arab leaders called on Iran to stop its policies seeking to fuel sectarian conflicts and refrain from supporting groups inflaming these conflicts in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states.
In the final communique, the Arab leaders denounced Iran's interference in domestic affairs of Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and the whole region in general.
They lauded Bahrain's security efforts which managed to foil a "terrorist" plot last January and arrest the plotters supported by Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Hezbollah, which has been designated as a "terrorist" group.
As for Iran's occupation of the three UAE's islands: Greater and Lesser Tunbs, and Abu Moussa, the leaders stressed the UAE's full sovereignty of the islands, supporting it in all peaceful measures aiming to restore the sovereignty of the islands.
The leaders also denounced Iran's violation of UAE's sovereignty that undermines stability and security in the region, and threatens international peace and security.
The summit condemned the residential facilities built by the Iranian government in the three islands with the aim of settling Iranians there, and Iranian military maneuvers conducted on the occupied islands, and over territorial waters and airspace.
The leaders called on Iran to halt such provocative acts interfering in internal affairs of an independent and a sovereign state, indicating that this does not help build confidence and poses a threat to security and stability in the region.
They asked Iran to show its desire aiming to improve relations with Arab countries, stressing that the issue of islands will maintain at the UN Security Council until Iran ends the island's occupation. The summit stressed that the relations between Arab countries and Iran should have been based on the principle of good neighborliness, calling for avoiding the use of force. The leaders also condemned and denounced inflammatory and hostile remarks made by some Iranian officials against Arab countries, calling for stopping such remarks.
The leaders approved Yemen's hosting of the next Arab summit.
--SPA
03:37 LOCAL TIME 00:37 GMT
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