Two Iraqi proposals on the agenda of Arab foreign ministers

Two Iraqi items be on the agenda of the meetings of the Arab foreign ministers in their 111st session that starts on March 17 under the chairmanship of Somalia.

The two items are the no-fly zones imposed by the United States and Britain on northern and southern Iraq and Iraqi demands and Arab initiatives to oppose the US and British policy toward Iraq and consider its enforcement illegal and contradictory to United Nations and Security Council resolutions. It will call for the two countries to pay compensation as result of the continuous shelling of southern and northern Iraq.

The second item includes Iraq's call for the Arab states to exert efforts to agree on practical humanitarian formulas to solve the problem of the missing Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Saudi people and demand to discuss the files of the missing Iraqis. Iraq and Kuwait make claims and counter claims regarding missing citizens as a result of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf war.

Iraq said that Kuwait is always talking about the issue of the Kuwaiti missing and captives on all political occasions in a subjective way that does not allow for a real dialog and finding a solution.