UNICEF manager leaves Baghdad

Carol Bellamy, the executive manger of the UNICEF organization, left Baghdad yesterday after a one-week visit to Iraq, during which she visited schools and hospitals to learn about the humanitarian situation of the Iraqi children in shadow of the sanctions imposed on their country. Bellamy visited also northern Iraq and met with the heads of the two Kurdish parties that have been sharing power in Kurdistan since 1991 and with whom she discussed means of improving children's care in the area.