Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 3/6/2000
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of March 6, 2000
- Lebanese premier confers with Iraqi FM
Lebanese Premier and Foreign Minister Salim al-Hoss met on Friday with Iraqi Foreign Minister Muhammad Said al-Sahaf, the chairman of the current session of the Arab League council. Lebanon-Iraq, Politics, 3/11/2000 - Two Kurdish factions asked to resume negotiations with the central government in Baghdad
Baghdad on Friday called on the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, to resume dialogue with the central authority in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 3/11/2000 - Iraq complains on US officials' visit to Kurdish north
Iraqi forces north of Bashiqah fired anti-aircraft artillery at aircraft enforcing the northern Iraq "no-fly zone" and targeted aircraft with radar from northwest of Tall Afar, the US European Command said yesterday, adding, "Coalition aircraft responded to the Iraqi attacks by dropping ordnance on elements of the Iraqi integrated air defense system." Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/10/2000 - Iraqi embassy in Damascus to open within six months
Ghazi Yasin Khodair, head of the Iraqi interests department, expected the opening of an Iraqi embassy in Damascus within six months, saying that the opening of the interest bureau will take place in the coming week (before vacations of the greater Bairam). Iraq-Syria, Politics, 3/10/2000 - British government prevents air flight to Iraq
The British government has prevented on March 6 an air flight intended to head to Baghdad, carrying medicines to help the Iraqi people in their suffering, against the UN sanctions. Iraq-UK, Politics, 3/9/2000 - UN proposal on Iraq Iraq-UN, Politics, 3/9/2000
- Odai Saddam Hussein nominates himself for parliamentary elections
The Iraqi dailies issued on Wednesday said that Odai Saddam Hussein, the oldest son of the Iraqi president, has nominated himself for the parliamentary elections to elect members of the Iraqi National Council due on March 27. Iraq, Politics, 3/9/2000 - Paper: Western intelligence report on Syria and Iraq
A western intelligence report has expressed concern over reports of the resumption of diplomatic relations between Syria and Iraq on the level of "offices for representing interests" as being the first diplomatic sign of a restoration of warmth in the relations between the two states. Syria-Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/8/2000 - Kuwaiti - Iraqi controversy in Arab labor conference
The Arab labor conference in Sharm El-Sheikh , Egypt witnessed a hot controversy between the Iraqi and Kuwaiti teams at the presentation of a draft by the Iraqi delegation that demands solidarity with the Iraqi people in confronting the sanctions imposed on them and asks the neighboring countries-- in reference to Kuwait and Saudi Arabia-- not to use their lands in attacking Iraq, assuring Iraq's right in to confront any attacks. Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 3/8/2000 - Iraq asks for application of joint Arab defense agreement
Gomhoria, the official Iraqi newspaper, asked yesterday the Arab foreign ministers during their meetings in Beirut on March 11 to apply the joint Arab defense agreement and the joint Arab market as well as other similar agreements. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 3/6/2000 - Al-Sahaf: Sanctions must be lifted off Baghdad for the Gulf's stability
Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf asserted that there will be neither security nor stability in the Gulf without lifting up the sanctions from Iraq, accusing USA of practicing a policy of collective extermination toward the Iraqi people and that it wants to turn Iraq into a US colony, which will never happen. Iraq, Politics, 3/6/2000 - British parliamentarian to make air flight in solidarity with Iraq
An Iraqi paper said on Sunday that British Parliamentarian George Galloway will organize next week an air flight from London to Baghdad through the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in solidarity with Iraq. Iraq-International, Politics, 3/6/2000