Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 6/26/2000
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of June 26, 2000
- An attack on UN office in Baghdad
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization FAO has announced that two of its staff were killed in an attack launched by an armed man against FAO's office in Baghdad on Wednesday. Iraq, Politics, 6/29/2000 - Iraq and the UN sanctions
Iraq's vice President Tareq Aziz announced on Wednesday that his country's government does not accept the principle of permanent sanctions on Iraq and that it refuses the UN monitoring of its weapons. Iraq-Italy, Politics, 6/29/2000 - Iraqi farmers wounded in a Gulf war missile explosion
Some 15 Iraqi peasants were wounded in the province of al-Anbar when a missiles from the remains of the Gulf war of 1991 went off. Iraq, Local, 6/29/2000 - Iran releases 450 Iraqi captives within days Iraq-Iran, Politics, 6/27/2000
- Iraqi embassy reopened in UAE
The United Arab Emirates UAE news agency in Abu Dhabi reported that foreign ministry secretary Seif Saeed in Said on Saturday received the credentials of Abdul Razzaq Hamoudi Ahmad, the first acting charge d’'affairs for the Iraqi embassy to the UAE since freezing diplomatic relations between the two states. United Arab Emirates-Iraq, Politics, 6/26/2000 - Al-Shara confers with Iraqi counterpart
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara on Sunday in Damascus met with Iraqi counterpart Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf. Talks dealt with bilateral relations and means of developing them. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 6/26/2000 - Holland gives asylum to three Iraqis expelled from Israel
The Dutch government has decided to accept three out of the six Iraqis who resorted to Israel in recent years and it ( Israel) threatened to expel them at the time being, according to the Israeli radio. Iraq-Israel, Politics, 6/26/2000