NEW DELHI, Sept 14: Iraq on Saturday said India was in a good position to advise US not to carry out any attack on it.

“We have friendly relations with India. We suggest India can adopt a unified stand rejecting any attack on Iraq,” Press trust of India quoted Iraq’s Ambassador Salah al-Mukhta as saying in the northern city of Chandigarh.

“India can advise the US through bilateral relations it enjoys with them that the war will not serve any purpose for any party including America,” al-Mukhta said.

India should initiate and form a group comprising China, Russia and France to urge the US that the war will serve no purpose, he said.

The ambassador was delivering a lecture on “resurgence of Asian civilization in the context of struggle of Iraqi people”.

“In case of an ‘American agression’, it will be a colonial war to serve colonial objective,” he added.—J.N