Iraq, Jordan to Resume Regular Flights: ReportIraqi Ministry of Transport and Communications has been making intense negotiations with its Jordanian counterpart to resume regular flights between the two neighboring countries, the official weekly Ittehad reported Sunday, December 10.The two countries planned to resume regular flights between their two capitals next week with two flights a week, the report said. By doing so, Jordan is in defiance of pressure from the United States, who has been demanding the kingdom not to resume flights to and from Iraq, said the report. The U.S. has been a major source of economic aid to Jordan. Jordan has been calling for lifting the sanctions on Iraq and has requested approval from the United Nations to resume Amman- Baghdad flights suspended since 1990. Jordan was the first Arab country to send a plane to the U.N. sanctions-hit country after Iraq reopened its international airport in August. On December 1, a Royal Jordanian airplane landed in Baghdad on the first commercial flight to Iraq in one decade since the sanctions were imposed for its invasion of Kuwait in 1990. |
| People's Daily Online --- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ |