Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 1/21/2002
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of January 21, 2002
- Iraq proposes a summit of reconciliation with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
Diplomatic sources in Baghdad has proposed that the proposals of the Iraqi leadership carried by the Secretary general of the Arab league Amre Mousa include the convening of a tripartite reconciliation summit having Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.. Iraq-Regional, Politics, 1/22/2002 - Mousa says he will visit the US on January 30th Regional-Iraq, Politics, 1/22/2002
- Some 50 Iranian prisoners will be released from the Iraqi jails, 197 from Iran 's Iraq-Iran, Politics, 1/21/2002
- Iraq to sign free trade agreements with three Arab states in the first quarter of 2002
Iraq's vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan has announced that his country will sign agreements to found free trade areas with three Arab states in the first half of this year. Iraq-Regional, Economics, 1/21/2002 - Iraq, Iran to close war prisoners files ultimately
An official at the Iraqi foreign ministry said that Iran will release on Monday 697 Iraqi prisoners, in coincidence with Baghdad's release of 50 Iranian prisoners who were arrested after 1991 because of crimes or violations they had committed. Iraq-Iran, Politics, 1/21/2002 - Turkish security circles and Iraq
The BBC correspondent in Ankara has states that security and diplomatic circles in Turkey incline to the conviction that Washington will seek within the few coming days to create internal problems in Iraq in order to topple the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein through a coupe or causing a people's rebellion. Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 1/21/2002