Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 7/14/1997
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of July 14, 1997
- Saddam calls for an end to sanctions
Yesterday in a 3-hour televised speech, celebrating the anniversary of the Iraqi Revolution which brought his party to power 29 years ago, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein warned that Iraqi/UN relations could reach a dead end if the latter does not lift the sanctions imposed on Iraq for almost six years now. Iraq, Politics, 7/18/1997 - Iraq cancels scheduled trade mission to Beirut
Baghdad canceled a visit by an Iraqi trade delegation, the first to Lebanon since 1990, in an angry reaction to the exclusion of its sportsmen from the Pan Arab Games. Iraq-Lebanon, Politics, 7/17/1997 - Saddam delivers important speech today
Saddam would talk about the relationship between his country and the United Nations. Iraq, Local, 7/17/1997 - Iraqi athletes denied entry to Lebanon
The 97-member Iraqi athletic team was halted at the Lebanese-Syrian crossing point of Masnaa yesterday and will not be granted visas to take part in the eighth Pan-Arab games which opened Saturday, an official said. Iraq, Politics, 7/15/1997 - Oil prices fall on Iraq-UN talks
World oil markets fell sharply on July 14 on news that Iraq had moved a step nearer to resuming oil sales. Iraq, Economics, 7/15/1997 - Iraqi oil production reaches 6 million barrels per day
Iraqi oil pipelines and facilities are able now to handle oil production and export to six million barrels per day which will be reached in five years once United Nations sanctions are lifted, a senior oil official said in remarks published on July 12. Iraq, Economics, 7/15/1997 - 15 Iraqis drowned in the Aegean
Turkish navy and coast guard ships searched on July 11 for any survivors from a boat that sunk in the Aegean Sea earlier this week, killing at least 14 Iraqi illegal immigrants being smuggled to Greece. Iraq, Local, 7/15/1997 - UN studies Iraqi request
United Nation experts are in Baghdad to study an Iraqi proposal to import goods via its new friend Syria, giving the sanctions-hit country a fourth outlet, a UN official in Baghdad said. Iraq, Economics, 7/14/1997