Beginning of Arab committee for lifting sanctions off Iraq today in Cairo

Meetings of the Arab committee for lifting the sanctions off Iraq began today in Cairo. This committee is a civil one and emerged from the Arab national conference to prepare for an expanded Arab activity to break the imposed international sanctions on Iraq.

Ashraf El-Bayoumi, head of the committee said that the committee will discuss the possibility of sending an Egyptian accompanied by an Arab delegation to Iraq, saying that "the Arabs must be at the front of breaking this unjust siege on Iraq and we as Egyptian people are directly and spiritually and economically suffering because of this siege for that thousands of the Egyptians were working in Iraq and the Egyptian government ought to allow this public expression which very widely appears by those injured due to the sanctions on Iraq and the injustice being done to the children as well as banning them from going to Iraq as before."

He said "we do not find sufficient support from the Arab people yet the Egyptian people and government realize this and we demand resuming the diplomatic relations as well as agreeing on a civil airplane to travel to Iraq as a public expression."