VOL. XL
No. 28
14-July-1997
IRAQ
Turkey Lifts Ban On Trade With Iraq While Russian Parliament's Upper House RejectsLaw On Cooperation With Baghdad
Turkey's new coalition government headed by the conservative Prime Minister MesutYilmaz announced on 7 July the lifting of a ban on border trade with Iraq imposed sincethe 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. "The ban on border trade in the southeast has beenlifted," according to Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit in a speech to hisDemocratic Left Party....
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