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IRAQ: SYRIAN PLANE LANDS IN BAGHDAD.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, October, 2000

The first flight from Damascus to Baghdad in almost a generation landed at Saddam International Airport on 8 October. It carried officials, doctors and medical supplies, according to Reuters. A second Syrian plane carrying representatives of the Arab Teachers' Union also landed in Baghdad on 11 October, according to Baghdad Radio.

Such flights, Reuters noted, are "largely symbolic" and exploit a loophole in a 1990 UN Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iraq. Iraq and Syria only started to normalize relations in 1997. But other countries in the region are following this opening. Two flights from Turkey, one on October 9 and another two days later, also landed in Baghdad. The first carried a delegation headed by Lutfi Akdugan, ex-chairman of the...

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