Iraq on November 11 once again requested U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to intervene with the United States and Britain and the countries that provide facilities for continuing violation of its airspace.

In a letter to Annan, Iraq's Ambassador to the United Nations, Saeed Hasan said violations of Iraq's airspace by the United States and British aircraft based in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey continued and the aircraft in question engaged in acts of aggression, reconnaissance activities and acts of provocation.

These actions are continuing to bring death and injury to hundreds of civilians and to cause serious damage to private and public property, Hasan said.

These aggression actions are flagrant violations of the Charter of the United Nations and of international law, posing threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq, he said.

He urged the U.N. chief to intervene with these countries, with a view to bringing a halt to the actions.

U.S. and British airplanes patrol on-fly zones over Iraq's north and south daily. The zones were imposed by the West after the 1991 Gulf War.