<span style="color: #222222;">Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Sunday expressed his concern over developments in Iraq and Arab region and called for calm. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In a statement, he said the region is currently in a dire need of calm, not escalation and extinguishing conflicts, not igniting and perpetuating them.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Arab League is a union of Arab-speaking African and Asian countries. It has 22 members and four observer States.</span><br />