Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 9/14/1998
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of September 14, 1998
- Prince Abdullah: Saddam still constitutes danger to the Gulf region
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz said that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein still constitutes a danger to the Gulf region. Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 9/18/1998 - Iraq asks for details on new UN proposal Iraq-UN, Politics, 9/18/1998
- Baghdad: US threat to strike Iraq will not make a change
Iraq on Thursday stressed that the threats directed against it from the US on the possibility of striking it if it does not resume cooperation with UN inspectors will "not make a change." Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/18/1998 - Iraqi - Egyptian commercial committee to meet in November
Official economic sources in the Egyptian Ministry of Trade said the Iraqi - Egyptian commercial joint committee is to meet in Cairo during the second half of November, chaired by Egyptian Minister of Trade Ahmed Goweili and his Iraqi counterpart, Mohammed Mahdi Saleh. Iraq-Egypt, Economics, 9/18/1998 - Iraqi commercial center in Damascus to open Sunday
Economic sources in Syria announced that Syrian Minister of Economy Mohammed al-Imadi will inaugurate on the coming Sunday the Iraqi commercial center in Damascus. Iraq-Syria, Economics, 9/18/1998 - Baghdad approves halting cooperation with UNSCOM
The Iraqi leadership on Wednesday approved the recommendation of the Nations Council (parliament) providing for halting cooperation with the UN committee in charge of eliminating weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iraq-UN, Politics, 9/17/1998 - Largest Iraqi bank to become semi-private company
The Iraqi revolutionary leadership council decided to transfer the Pioneers Bank, the largest official bank in Iraq, into a public company as a preliminary step for transferring it into a mixed private and public company instead of public company. Iraq, Business, 9/17/1998 - Syrians permitted into Iraq without visa Iraq-Syria, Politics, 9/16/1998
- Rubin: US watching Iraqi situation closely Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/16/1998
- UN chief confers with Iraqi deputy premier Iraq-UN, Politics, 9/16/1998
- Barzani and Talibani meet in Washington
Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Massoud Barzani said in a statement to the United Arab Emirates daily al-Itihad that the currently-proposed US project in the US congress that provides for reactivating the Iraqi opposition is "a dead before birth project." Iraq-USA, Politics, 9/15/1998 - Iraqi National Council convenes extraordinary session
The Iraqi National Council today held an extraordinary session to discuss the decision taken by the UN Security Council to suspending periodical revisions of the sanctions imposed on Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 9/14/1998