On Syrian- Iraqi relations
Syria-Iraq, Politics, 11/8/2001

The secretary general of the Socialists Unionist Party in Syria Faez Ismael has stressed in a statement to the United Arab Emirates UAE daily al-Bayan issued on Wednesday that what is taking place between Syria and Iraq is into the right path of a political conviction that Syria has no way but to meet with Iraq and vis a vis.

For his part, reserve member of the party's regional leadership Fadel al-Insari ( from Iraq) said that Syrian- Iraqi relations are a might for the two countries and for the Arabs, alike.

The Iraqi trade minister Muhammad Mahdi Saleh said that trade contracts with Syria might reach USD 1.5 billion by the end of the current year and Iraq's policy is proceeding towards openness on all Arab states without exception.

Meantime, member of the central council for the Islamic revolution in Iraq Bayan Jaber said that the exchanged visits between Syria and Iraq did not affect the work of the Iraqi opposition in Damascus.

Member of the political bureau for the Call "al-Dawa" party in Iraq Abu al-Sarra al-Maliki said that Damascus's justifications to meet with Iraq are acceptable for us as an Iraqi opposition and we do clearly understand them.

For his part, the Iraqi writer Amer Bader Hassoun said that Syrian- Iraqi relations have not been at any time stable relations.

The official in charge of Arab relations in the Kurdistani democratic national federation Adel Murad said that relations between Syria and Iraq will not affect the Iraqi forces existed on the Syrian arena, rather might be ( these forces) used as a means to open a direct dialogue with the Iraqi regime at the support of Syria.

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