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Belarus officials to on humanitarian visit to Iraq MINSK, April 18 (AFP) - An official delegation from Belarus will visit Iraq next week to promote humanitarian ties between the two countries, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The delegation, led by deputy chief of President Alexander Lukashenko's administration Leonid Kozik, would include officials from the health and trade ministries, as well as representatives of Belarus's Belavia airlines. "The delegation also includes a group of surgeons, who would perform charity surgeries in Iraqi hospitals," foreign ministry spokesman Pavel Latushka said, adding that Belarus was ready to train Iraqi doctors as well. The group is scheduled to meet with Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Khikmat Al-Azavi and other ministers, Latushka added. Belarus, which already sells tractors, trucks, spare parts and tyres, would like to establish a tractor factory, rebuild a bottle manufacturer and restore a water system in the capital Baghdad, officials in Minsk said earlier. Belarus and its authoritarian leader are viewed with disfavour by the United States, which accuses Minsk of being implicated in arms sales to countries that support terrorism. Last October, the German newspaper Die Welt reported that some 30 Iraqi officers from anti-aircraft defence forces were in Belarus to familiarise themselves with S-300 anti-aircraft missiles, which Minsk denied, saying there was no military component to the Belarus-Iraqi ties. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
