The US obstructs Syrian request on Iraq

The United Arab Emirates UAE daily al-Bayan issued on Saturday said that the US is obstructing a Syrian request submitted to the UN which provides for permitting civil Syrian air flights to Iraq.

In a statement a diplomatic source at the UN said that the ambassador of the US to the UN James Koningham stressed before the UN security council in its Thursday's session that the resolutions on approving air flights to Iraq are given separately, adding that it is surprising that this request comes from a country seeks to be a member at the UN Security Council, in remarks to Syria.

Syria had proposed a decision to the UN sanctions committee on Iraq to run ordinary air flights to Baghdad but the committee refused the Syrian request.