A delegation of Lebanese government ministers is due in Baghdad Thursday to look at cooperation over oil and economic issues, an official source said.
The delegation will include the finance and economy ministers, Fuad Saniora and Bassel Fleihane respectively, and ministers of state Michel Pharaon and Beshara Merhej, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi told journalists after a cabinet meeting.
Asked if preliminary contact had been made with the United Nations about the trip, Aridi said: "Lebanon does not take precipitous decisions."
"We have had contacts for a long time with all the parties concerned to study ways of cooperating financially and economically with Iraq," he added.
Iraq has been under an international embargo following its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, but a program was introduced in 1996 allowing it to sell its oil.
However, several countries have recently begun eroding the UN sanctions, notably by organizing flights to Baghdad under various pretexts -- BEIRUT (AFP)
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