Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 10/30/2000
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of October 30, 2000
- Oil agreement between Iraq and Jordan
Jordan and Iraq on Friday signed an agreement which states to provide Jordan with 5 million tons of Iraqi oil in the year 2001. Iraq-Jordan, Economics, 11/4/2000 - Britain warns Iraq against opening oil pipeline to Syria
The Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa issued on Friday said that Britain has warned Iraq against the consequences of opening the oil pipeline to Syria and considered this step as depriving the Iraqi people from humanitarian aids, especially if the exports process is made outside the framework of the oil for food agreement. Iraq-Syria, Economics, 11/4/2000 - The Iraqi- Syrian oil pipeline will be ready within three days
The Iraqi question on Wednesday witnessed important developments and the most remarkable of them was Baghdad's declaration that the Iraqi- Syrian oil pipeline which is closed since 1982, will be ready for exporting crude oil through it within two or three days. Iraq-Syria, Politics, 11/3/2000 - Al-Qaddafi gets a message from the Iraqi leadership Libya-Iraq, Politics, 11/3/2000
- Iraq refuses to receive Mauritania's plane delegations representing
the Arab Engineers Union arrived in Baghdad on Thursday to take part in the 17th session of the union's higher council after concluding its works in Damascus on Wednesday, on board of a Syrian plane carrying medicines and foodstuffs in the course of continued aids rendered by Syria to the brotherly people of Iraq. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 11/3/2000 - Jordanian king gets message from Hussein, Premier starts visit to Baghdad
The Jordanian King Abdullah II on Wednesday received a message from the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, handed over by the Jordanian Foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf. Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 11/2/2000 - Iraq to reopen oil pipeline through Syria
The Nicosia-based Middle East Economic Survey ( MEES) news bulletin said on Tuesday that Iraq and Syria have agreed to reopen the oil pipelines between the two states, closed since 1982, in this month ( November), and most expectedly in the mid of this month. Iraq-Syria, Economics, 11/1/2000 - Iraqi president gets a message from Tunisian counterpart Iraq-Tunisia, Politics, 10/31/2000
- Jordanian prime minister to visit Iraq for the first time since 10 years
Jordanian prime minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb will head for Baghdad tomorrow leading an official and people's delegation including 100 popular and official figures in an official visit to Iraq which is the first for a Jordanian prime minister since the second Gulf war ( the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait ). Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 10/31/2000 - Iraqi minister calls for regular official Arab flights to Baghdad
Iraq's foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf has called on Arab official government sides to return back regular air flights with Iraq in order to break the air embargo imposed on it as part of the series of UN sanctions imposed on Iraq since 1990. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 10/31/2000 - Iraq defies the embargo and resumes internal air flights
Iraq decided on defying the imposed air embargo on it in north and south by resuming internal air flights. Iraq, Economics, 10/31/2000 - Iraqi Baath warns of repetition of Arab summit's statement in Doha summit Iraq-Regional, Politics, 10/30/2000
- First Palestinian airplane lands in Saddam International airport with injured on it
The first Palestinian Boeing airplane carrying 20 wounded Palestinians landed yesterday in Saddam International airport at the end of a trip that started in Gaza with an stop over in Amman airport. Iraq-Palestine, Politics, 10/30/2000 - Palestinian plane in Iraq Palestine-Iraq, Politics, 10/30/2000