Iranian- Iraqi agreement concerning prisoners, Moscow calls for lifting the sanctions on Baghdad

Iraq and Iran have agreed to resume talks over the exchange of remains of the soldiers killed during the Iraqi- Iranian war in 1980- 1998.

The Iraqi daily al- thawra on Thursday quoted a source at the Iraqi foreign ministry as saying that the few coming days will witness the convening of the of the joint Iranian- Iraqi committee in search of the remains of the victims of the war, the prisoners and the missing from both sides in the two countries, noting that the talks will last for five days.

As for the question of lifting the embargo imposed on Iraq, the Russian ambassador for special missions Nicolai Katozove said in a statement on Thursday that the Arab states support the efforts made by Russia aiming at lifting the embargo imposed on Iraq and to cancel it completely. He described his recent tour on many Arab states as very fruitful.