Aziz: Mt talks in Damascus are fraternal, proceeding to normalcy
Iraq-Syria, Politics, 9/29/2000

Iraq's deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz on Thursday described his talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during his recent visit to Damascus as "friendly, objective and dealt with bilateral relations."

He added in statements to journalists after he met with the Jordanian delegation which arrived on Wednesday evening to Baghdad, that relations with Syria are proceeding on the right track."

Concerning the sanctions on Iraq, Aziz said the US pressures to prevent organizing air flights to Iraq have started to be loosen because these pressures are not accepted legally and morally.

Replying to questions put by journalists, Aziz said " the US might have its own views but it cannot impose its own will on all."

He added what is taking place is natural and the normal development because this siege has become " rejected and hated and all people call for lifting it."

Replying to a question on the French position Aziz said " I do not want to comment on stances but the statements issued by the French foreign ministry give the legal explanations for the UN Security Council resolutions to this effect in that there is no banning on civil aviation."

On the other hand, the Yemeni news agency Sabaa said that a Yemeni passengers plane will leave Sanaa heading for Baghdad today boarding a people and governmental delegation carrying medicines and humanitarian aids. The agency added that this initiative aims at alleviating the humanitarian sufferings of the Iraqi people resulted from the sanctions imposed on the Iraqis since more than 10 years and an expression of Yemen's solidarity with its brothers in Iraq.

Meantime, Iraq on Wednesday stressed that if it were helped to end the UN sanctions imposed on it and resulted in obstructing the importing of medical supplies, hundreds of thousands of lives would have been rescued especially children.

The governor of the central Bank of Iraq Issam Rashid Hweish stressed in a speech he delivered before the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund IMF and the World Bank WB which was held in Prague that the policy of obstructing medicine contracts increases the sufferings of the Iraqi patients and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands especially children.

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