Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 8/27/2001
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of August 27, 2001
- Kuwait denies news concerning downed US pilot-less plane
The first deputy for the Kuwaiti Premier and the foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah has refused the Iraqi accusations that the US planes which was downed by Iraq on Monday took off from the Kuwaiti territories. Kuwait-Iraq, Politics, 8/29/2001 - Trade relations between Iraq, Turkey
The Iraqi oil minister Amer Muhammad Rasheed said on Tuesday that the volume of trade exchange between Iraq and Turkey reached USD 3 billion for the current year 2001. The same figure used to be before 1990. Iraq-Turkey, Economics, 8/29/2001 - On Syrian- Iraqi relations
The Jordanian weekly al-Sabeel talked in its recent issue released on Tuesday about the Syrian- Iraqi closeness, noting that the visit of the Syrian prime minister to Baghdad constituted an accelerated progress in the relation between the two countries following a boycott of relations between the two countries lasted for several years. Syria-Iraq, Politics, 8/29/2001 - WHO delegation in Iraq to investigate on cancer cases behind depleted Uranium
A team from the World Health Organization WHO on Tuesday started investigations on the suffering of the Iraqis from advanced cancer cases because of the depleted Uranium. Iraq, Health, 8/29/2001 - Iraq earns additional $362 million under un 'oil-for-food' program
Iraq has exported 16.8 million barrels of crude over the past week, earning an estimated ?397 million (euros), or $362 million, under the United Nations oil-for-food program that allows Baghdad to use a portion of its petroleum revenues to purchase humanitarian relief goods. Iraq, Economics, 8/29/2001 - Syrian source denies on expected visit of President al- Assad to Iraq Syria-Iraq, Politics, 8/28/2001
- Iraq will not agree the return back of weapons inspectors
The Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri has renewed rejection that Iraq will not agree to the return back of UN weapons inspectors who left Iraqi more than two years ago before lifting the embargo imposed on it since 1990 and eliminating all mass destruction weapons in Israel. Iraq, Politics, 8/28/2001 - Iraq downs an American plane Iraq-USA, Politics, 8/27/2001
- Iraqi minister denies Syrian initiative Iraq-Syria, Politics, 8/27/2001
- Iraqi criticism for the conference of the Arab foreign ministers
The Iraqi daily al-Thawra ( revolution) on Sunday strongly criticized the decisions of the emergency conference of the Arab foreign ministers, considering that these decisions constituted a step backward in confrontation of Israel towards the Palestinian Intifada. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 8/27/2001