Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 1/7/2002
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of January 7, 2002
- With AL's chief coming visit to Baghdad, Iraq intensifies calls for Arab solidarity
Iraq has recently increased its calls for maintaining Arab solidarity and freezing differences. Such calls have been coincided with the approaching date for the visit of the secretary general of the Arab League (AL) Amr Moussa to Baghdad. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 1/12/2002 - Iraq, Thailand exchange ambassadors
Officials concerned said that Iraq and Thailand agreed on Thursday on exchanging ambassadors for the first time since the suspension of relations between them more than one decade because of the Gulf war. Iraq-Thailand, Politics, 1/12/2002 - Iraq has good relations with most Arab Gulf states, minister says
The Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri has stressed that his country's relations with most of the Arab Gulf states are good relations and that these relations are developing and growing. Iraq-Gulf, Politics, 1/10/2002 - Iraqi vice president calls for inter- Arab dialogue
The Iraqi vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan has called for a " brotherly " dialogue among the Arab states in order to maintain inter- Arab solidarity to withstand challenged impeding the Arab nation. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 1/10/2002 - Washington suspends financial aids to Iraqi opposition
The US on Monday announced it has suspended financial aids to the Iraqi opposition because of the bad management of these sums, rather than a change in the US policy towards the ruling system in Baghdad. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/9/2002 - Turkish security belt in north Iraq Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 1/8/2002
- Diesel fuel transport operations resumed from north Iraq to Turkey Iraq-Turkey, Economics, 1/8/2002
- UN oil-for-food program ratified
The UN has approved that the UN secretary general Kofi Annan has ratified the program provided for using oil revenues ( oil-for-food program) of USD4.432 billion, given to Iraq. Iraq, Economics, 1/8/2002 - An American plan to topple Saddam Hussein
Western sources told the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai al-Am issued on Saturday that the US draft plan aiming at toppling the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein started to raise Iran's concern because the options debated by this plan is the foundation of the Iraqi Shiite regime without men of religion and not a friend to Iran. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/7/2002 - US suspends funding to Iraqi opposition
The US has suspended paying money to an opposition Iraqi group over the way millions of donated US dollars given to this group were spent. Iraq-USA, Politics, 1/7/2002 - Saddam Hussein's speech on the Iraqi army foundation day
The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said on Sunday in a televised speech on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the foundation of the Iraqi army that any aggression against Iraq will doom to failure. "The same happened in all previous confrontations," he said. Iraq, Politics, 1/7/2002