Egyptian medical aids for Iraq

A source at the Egyptian" Egypt's Aviation " in Cairo said on Sunday that an Egyptian plane was due to head for Baghdad on Monday carrying a huge delegation of businessmen and huge amounts of medical and humanitarian aids.

The source, which refused to be identified, added that this flight falls in the course of several other flights of humanitarian nature organized by several Egyptian businessmen to Iraq.

The source stressed that the UN sanctions committee has given its consent on these humanitarian flights, noting the possibility of organizing other flights of the same kind during the coming weeks if the businessmen ask for that.

However, an official at the said Egyptian airline company announced it will start a weekly " charter' flight to Baghdad after Eid al-Fiter which was celebrated on December 27. 2000, but he did not set a date for that.