VOL. XXXV

NO. 25

23-MARCH-1992

Iraq/Syria

Syria Cautiously Opens Border Trade with Iraq

MEES understands that Syria has slowly and cautiously started opening its twomain border posts with Iraq to facilitate trade between the two countries. Theborder posts of al-Walid and Albu-Kamal have been reopened lately to accommodatethe increasing traffic following an earlier crackdown on such trade by Jordanand Turkey (MEES, 2 March). The Jordanian Government issued specific orders inlate December detailing...