Following Jordan, Yemen to break embargo on Iraq tomorrow
Iraq, Politics, 9/28/2000

Jordan has become the third country to break the embargo imposed on Iraq after Russia and France, as on Wednesday a plane for the Jordanian Royal airlines landed at Baghdad's International airport carrying officials, doctors and medicines, while in Sanaa it was announced that a Yemeni plane will head for Baghdad tomorrow.

A crowded number of citizens received the plane " Airbus A. 320 upon its arrival at the airport at 7.10 p.m. ( local time) Jordan notified the UN sanctions committee about the flight which came aid a wave of defiance against the embargo imposed on Iraq since its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990.

The Jordanian delegation is composed of 70 members, led by the health minister Tareq Suheimat and it also includes the ministers of social development and the municipal and environmental affairs and some 10 Parliament members who are professional doctors as well as members in charity organizations.

The Jordanian minister of commerce and industry Wasef Azar told the press after he had seen off the delegation at Amman's airport that the flight is of humanitarian purposes and that the UN was notified about it.

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