Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 4/10/2000
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of April 10, 2000
- Canadian committee calls for halting the sufferings of the Iraqi people
The permanent committee for foreign affairs and international committee at the Canadian parliament has asked the government to put an end to the sanctions imposed on Iraq because it inflict great damages on the Iraqi people. Iraq-Canada, Politics, 4/15/2000 - Half million Iraqi children die from the economic embargo
Iraq on Thursday officially announced in a report it had submitted to the human rights committee at the UN in Geneva that almost half a million Iraqi children have died because of the embargo imposed on it since 1990. Iraq, Health, 4/14/2000 - UN Securtiy Council approves UNMOVIC plan
The United Nations Security Council yesterday approved an organizational plan for the organization of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), created to replace UNSCOM in monitoring weapons in Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 4/14/2000 - Iran releases 2,000 Iraqi prisoners, increased call to lift sanctions on Iraq
The general secretariat of the international federation for the Arab workers trade union has condemned the continued siege imposed on Iraq and called for halting the British-American aggressions against the Iraqi people. Iraq-Iran, Politics, 4/13/2000 - Iraqi lawyers ask Jordan to close file of the Italian pilot
The Iraqi lawyers syndicate asked the Jordanian judiciary to halt the legal procedures against Nicola Trifiani, the Italian pilot accused of violating the law and misleading the Jordanian authorities when he flew a small airplane from Rome to Baghdad through Amman, violating the air embargo imposed on Iraq. Jordan-Iraq-International, Politics, 4/12/2000 - Iran says detained tankers smuggling Iraqi oil Iraq-Iran, Politics, 4/12/2000
- Former UN official for lifting sanctions from Iraq
Former UN Assistant for Secretary General Denis Halliday, who is also a former head of the humanitarian program in Iraq on Monday in Canberra said that the West is carrying out the complete destruction of Iraqi society by keeping sanctions imposed on this country. Iraq-International, Politics, 4/11/2000 - President Saddam Hussein fight over power Iraq, Politics, 4/10/2000
- Iran releases Iraqi prisoners
Some 500 Iraqi prisoners of war arrived on Sunday at al-Munzereyah border center after being released by Iran earlier. Iraq-Iran, Politics, 4/10/2000 - Sadoun Hammadi reelected as speaker of the Iraqi parliament
Members of the Iraqi National Council (parliament) on Sunday in Baghdad reelected, for the second time Sadoun Hammadi as the speaker of the council following the legislative elections on March 27. Iraq, Politics, 4/10/2000 - Baghdad attacks Cohen's tour in the Gulf
The Iraqi government attacked tour of US Defense Secretary William Cohen to the Gulf area. Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/10/2000