Damascus lifts restrictions on traveling to Iraq

News reports said that Syrian citizens who have traveled between Damascus and Baghdad asserted that restrictions on the travel of the Syrians to Iraq were lifted as it has been permitted to all citizens to travel to Iraq after the page in the passport " except Iraq' was removed. The stamp which prevented the travel of the Syrians to Baghdad since the beginning of the 1980 s.

One of the Syrian citizens who traveled to Iraq at the invitation of a friend, said that the Syrian authorities lifted from his passport the stamp of preventing visit to Iraq and permitted him to travel without visas between the Syrian and the Iraqi sides.

Earlier the Syrian authorities confined the travel of the Syrians to Iraq to traders after the beginning of " commercial activities' between the two sides. Well-informed sources say that strides of improving relations between the two countries are proceeding rapidly, but calmly.