Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 10/19/1998
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of October 19, 1998
- Pentagon: US not required to fund Iraqi opposition
The legislation also allows the US to send surplus tanks and other weapons to Iraq and to supply training and military education if the US government decides to utilize the funding. Iraq-USA, Politics, 10/24/1998 - France urges Iraq to cooperate with UN
France has reiterated its call for Iraq to resume cooperation with the UN and to cancel the decision it had taken on August 5 to prevent UNSCOM from carrying out new inspection operations. Iraq-France, Politics, 10/24/1998 - Relations between Lebanon and Iraq to resume soon
Official sources in the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said that governmental relations between Lebanon and Iraq will be soon resumed on a non-diplomatic level. Lebanon-Iraq, Politics, 10/24/1998 - Lebanese embassy in Iraq opens on administrative level
A Lebanese official source in Amman said on Thursday that Lebanese administrative employee Elias Numnum arrived in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on his way to Baghdad to assume his duty at his country's embassy there. Lebanon-Iraq, Politics, 10/23/1998 - Pipeline planned between Iraq and Jordan
Iraqi and Jordanian officials confirmed that Baghdad and Amman started yesterday talks concerning establishing a petroleum pipeline between the two countries at a cost of $350 million. Jordan-Iraq, Economics, 10/22/1998 - Report: German embassy to reopen in Baghdad Iraq-Germany, Politics, 10/22/1998
- US plan to topple Saddam by Iraqi opposition
An Egyptian daily reported that US Secretary of Defense William Cohen briefed several Arab Gulf states he recently visited on the content of the US plan to topple Saddam Hussein through Iraqi opposition elements. Iraq-USA, Politics, 10/21/1998 - Iraqi facilities for investment in the free zones Iraq, Economics, 10/21/1998
- Welch - Kurd agreement Iraq-USA, Politics, 10/20/1998
- Three Iraqi shepherds killed in a explosion of Gulf War bomb Iraq, Local, 10/20/1998
- New Iraqi ambassador in Ankara
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has nominated one of the prominent leaders of the Iraqi intelligence to be Iraqi's ambassador in Ankara, and thereby to succeed former Iraqi Ambassador Rafe Dahham al-Takriti. Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 10/19/1998 - Aziz: UN sanctions on Iraq prove to be a failure
Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz said on Sunday that the UN sanctions imposed on Iraq for eight years will be lifted after they are proved futile. Iraq-UN, Politics, 10/19/1998