Iranian-Iraqi negotiations on exchanging corpses will resume in September

The chairman of the Iraqi side in the Iraqi-Iranian committee for prisoners and missing, Fahmi al-Qeise, has announced that Iraqi-Iranian negotiations on exchanging bodies of soldiers who were killed during the war between the two countries will be resumed in September.

The Iraqi daily Babel issued on Tuesday quoted al-Qeisi as saying that Iran was informed about the new date for the negotiations which had been scheduled to start last Sunday, adding that postponement was made to prepare for the file pertaining to exchanging the remains of soldiers.

The last operation of exchanging soldiers' remains between the two countries was on June 8 this year, covering the remains of 106 soldiers from the two sides.

The question of prisoners of war and the missing constitutes the main obstacle before normalizing relations between the two countries 11 years after the end of the war, which lasted foreight years 1980 - 1988.