Iraq

April 30, 2000

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The new coordinator of Iraq's UN oil-for-food program aid on Sunday he hoped to improve the system under which Iraq feeds its people with proceeds fro

April 29, 2000

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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein failed to show up for his own party Friday, as thousands of Iraqis marched through the streets of this northern town to

April 28, 2000

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Iran will soon repatriate about 480 Iraqi prisoners from the 1980-88 war between the two countries, Iranian state television reported Thursday. Meanwh

April 26, 2000

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Iraq will be ready to cooperate with the UN Security Council once the decade-old embargo has been lifted, Ath-Thawra Iraqi newspaper said Wednesday. 

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Iraq accused Kuwait Tuesday of having boarded three ships in Iraqi territorial waters in acts of "armed aggression" against its sovereignty, the offic

April 25, 2000

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An Egyptian economic delegation headed by the Egyptian Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Dr. Yusuf Butrus Ghali, will visit Baghdad on the April 27th, Al-Hayat newspaper reported. Comprised of 40

April 23, 2000

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Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani's visit to Saudi Arabia could signal a new US-Iranian-Saudi axis that would leave Baghdad out in the cold, an

April 20, 2000

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 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Thursday reopened its embassy in Baghdad, which had been closed since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.  Emirati

April 18, 2000

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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz has cast doubts on the objectivity of Hans Blix, the chief of the new arms body UNMOVIC charged with disarming

April 17, 2000

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   The pavilions at the industrial fair brim with Iraqi-made goods: electrical appliances, carpets, textiles, spare parts and foodstuffs all laid out

April 16, 2000

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   Representative Tony Hall on Sunday left Jordan for a trek across the desert to Baghdad on the first trip by a US official to assess the "suffer

April 15, 2000

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  Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said Saturday that a decision by the UN Security Council to approve a plan for a new arms inspection body in

April 14, 2000

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The United Nations Security Council has approved a plan for a new weapons inspection agency for Iraq, BBC.online reported Friday.   The plan, draw

April 13, 2000

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More than 4,600 former Iraqi prisoners of war living in Iran refuse to be repatriated, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said

April 11, 2000

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Iraq's preparations for the agricultural summer season are in full swing.  The State Enterprise for Chemical Fertilizers - Southern Region (S.E.C.F.) has notified the presidential bureau that it has a