Jordanian association calls for unity between Syria and Iraq

Chairman of the Jordanian Bar Association Hussein Majali has extended a memorandum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and to the Syrian President Hafez al-Assad in which he called for maintaining unity between Syria and Iraq in order "to withstand aggressive schemes."

The memorandum reads: "We appeal you to withstand what is going on through international reconciliation and purifying relations between the two Arab countries, Syria and Iraq in order to face the Arab crisis which threatens of total destruction of the Arab nation's sovereignty, its own existence, future, destiny, resources, waters as well as durable occupation of its will, territories and potentials."

Meanwhile, in Dubai, the United Arab dailies said on Tuesday that charity societies started a campaign for collecting donations to the Iraqi people as means of supporting the Iraqis in confrontation of results of the US-British aggression. The campaign comes at the request of the UAE defense minister Sheikh Muhammad Bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is also Dubai's crown prince.