Arabic News Weekly Edition for Iraq, 6/10/2002
Weekly Edition, Iraq - Week of June 10, 2002
- Morocco, Iraq set up business council
Moroccan Secretary of state for foreign trade, Abdelkrim Ben Atiq, who attended the council setting up ceremony underlined the need for a legal framework to regulate trade and industrial investments between the two states' private operators and called businessmen to explore new partnership opportunities other than the traditional trade exchanges, to encompass the sectors of services, new technologies and all industrial branches. Morocco-Iraq, Economics, 6/14/2002 - Iraq defense means intercept US, British planes over southern Iraq Iraq-USA, Military, 6/12/2002
- Al-Bayan:Saudi, Iraqi foreign ministers meet in Khartoum
In the context of bilateral relations between Saudi Arabia and Iraq which has been recently witnessing notable progress especially since the convening of the recent Beirut Arab summit, an Arab diplomatic source in Baghdad disclosed that the Saudi foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal and his Iraqi peer Naji Sabri will be meeting by the end of this month in Khartoum. Iraq-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 6/12/2002 - The US and the Iraqi opposition
The US Department of State has expressed its desire to maintain dialogue with the largest strata possible of the Iraqi opposition groups in order to change the Iraqi regime. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/12/2002 - Iraq, Qatar sign free trade agreement
Iraq and Qatar signed in Baghdad Sunday a free trade agreement to foster their commercial and economic ties. Iraq-Qatar, Economics, 6/11/2002 - Rumsfeld leaves Kuwait for Bahrain; accuses Iraq
The US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld has expressed his hope that the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will be toppled during the period of time when he is still a defense minister. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/11/2002 - Rumsfeld address Iraq issue upon his arrival in Kuwait
Here are the US Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld Sunday, June 9, 2002 answers on some issues upon his arrival in Kuwait. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/11/2002 - Two Lebanese delegations in Baghdad
Well-informed Lebanese sources in the Iraqi capital Baghdad stressed that the speaker of the Lebanese parliament Nabih Berri received an invitation from his Iraqi counterpart Saadoun Hammadi Iraq-Lebanon, Politics, 6/10/2002 - Iraqi opposition groups discuss in Washington means of toppling the president
Representatives for four opposition Iraqi groups on Friday visited the headquarters of the US State Department in Washington and held talks centered on means of toppling the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq-USA, Politics, 6/10/2002