Al- Sahaf tours Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand

The Iraqi foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf announced that he had discussed during his tour which covered Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand the implementation of article 50 of the UN charter to develop cooperation with Iraq in the commercial and economic fields.

Al-Sahaf who returned back from an Asian tour said that the officials in the capitals of the three countries stressed the determination of their countries to make use of article 50 in developing cooperation with Iraq and their support for the efforts made to lift the siege imposed on Iraq.

For its part, the Iraqi dailies that the talks al-Sahaf held also dealt with Iraq's relations with the UN Security Council and Iraq's position towards the dialogue with the UN which supposed to start by the end of the current month.

Worthy mentioning that article 50 of the UN charter states that if the UN Security Council takes against any state any repression or deterrent measures, any other state, being a member at the UN security council or not, facing special economic problems emerging from the implementation of these measures has the right to study with the UN Security Council means of settling these problems.