Egyptian parliament opens issue of those who disappeared in Iraq

The Egyptian People's Assembly decided to open the issue of Egyptian citizens who disappeared in Iraq.

The head of the assembly, Fathi Serour, delivered two urgent statements yesterday regarding this matter to the committee on the Arab affairs at the assembly.

The Egyptian newspaper al-Akhbar al-Youm published an expanded investigation about the disappearance of 6,000 citizens who are working in Iraq, and it has blamed the Iraqi government for this.

A member the leading front of the parliamentary bloc for the ruling national party, Fathi Biyoumi, read an urgent statement before the assembly in which he asked Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa to raise an inquiry to reveal the facts, pointing to the role played by the Egyptian government for saving Iraq in its different crises.