Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 5/15/2000
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of May 15, 2000
- Iran to unilateraly free Iraqi prisoners
Iran will unilaterally free 460 Iraqi prisoners of war (PoWs) on humanitarian ground ..(and) hand them to the International Committee of the Red Cross Iraq-Iran, Politics, 5/20/2000 - Baghdad: US- British warplanes continue striking civilian targets
Iraq said on Thursday that the US warplanes continue, day and night striking the Iraqi civilian targets, noting that the last attack " carried out by the enemy was that on Wednesday when one child was killed and four people wounded." Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/19/2000 - Iraq exports at 2 million barrels of oil per day
An Iraqi oil source said on Thursday that Iraq exports at the meantime almost 2 million barrels of oil per day in the framework of the oil for food agreement. Iraq, Economics, 5/19/2000 - Economic relations between Syria, Iraq reviewed
Syrian minister of the economy and foreign trade Muhammad al-Imadi on Wednesday in Damascus discussed with his Iraqi counterpart Muhammad Mahdi Saleh trade and economic relations between Syria and Iraq and means of revitalizing them in the framework of the UN food for oil agreement. Syria-Iraq, Economics, 5/18/2000 - One Iraqi child killed in American raid
An Iraqi military spokesman said on Wednesday that one Iraqi child was killed and four other civilians were wounded in air strikes carried out by US and British warplanes against Southern Iraq. Iraq, Politics, 5/18/2000 - France says Qatari initiative on Iraq helpfull Iraq-Qatar-France, Politics, 5/17/2000
- Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament to visit France Iraq-France, Politics, 5/16/2000
- Kuwaiti- Iraqi relations debated in a conference
In a first conference of its kind since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, a conference was held on Saturday in Kuwait under the title" the future of Iraqi- Kuwaiti relations." The conference was held under the patronage of the ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah. Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 5/15/2000