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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RNISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASlN ÖZETÎ
on to security issues he also discussed
transport questions that are pending between
the two countries dunng the three
days of talks in Tehran, Anatolia said.
Turkey is at odds with Iran over its decision
in June to ban the import of goods
from Turkish ports.
Iran maintams that the decision is not a
political one aimed against Turkey, but
an economic decision aimed at easmg its
national transport sector, which is struggling
with stagnation. Iran gave two explanations
for the decision, Sanberk said.
"First they have reduced imports because
of economic difficulties, and second they
say they have repaired their ports which
were damaged during the war."
Turkey is concerned that Iran's sudden
decision will harm Turkish port and
highway transportation.
TurkIsh Transport and Communications
Minister Mehmet Koö tepen, in a
Turkish-Iranian joint transport commission
meeting held in Tehran last month,
said unless Turkey received a guarantee
of 400,000 tons per year for the Turkish
ports, it would have to introduce levies
on transit highway transportation. Turkey
rejected an offer of a guarantee of
200,000 tons.
"If no agreement is reached on the
restrictions to our {lOrts,there is the question
of our imposmg transit fees," Sanberk
saidon his return from Iran.
The two sides are expected to meet in
September to try and settle the issue.
Another transport issue of contention
is the difficulties Turkish trucks face
when travelling to Central Asia. Iranian
officials assured Sanberk that no restrictions
would be imposed on the trucks,
and that the difficulties would be shortly
removed.
turkish daily news - August 9, 1993
Iraq blasts Iran
on anniversary
of end of war
Reuters
BAGHDAD- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched a tirade
against neighboring Iran on the fifth anniversary of the end of a war
between the two countries.
liThe rulers of Iran have been following a destructive role since the
days that followed the cease-fire in the 1991 allied aggression," he said
m a 4O-minute televised and radio address to the nation,
Saddam said the Iranians together with the Saudi-led Arab allies
who helped the West drive IraqI troops from Kuwait in February 1991
had done great harm to all Muslims,
"I pray to God to bring them all back to the right path and. fill their
hearts with faith and virtue," Saddam said. Iran on Sunday SaId for the
first time that it had sent forces into Iraq to pound Kurdish rebels who
mounted cross-border raids on Iran from northern Iraq.
Iran has denied Iraqi charges that it was involved in a car bomb
'[~~ .. SABAHSaidthat it is disclosingthe PKK (outlawed KurdiStan
,tothat country by the authorities. The file
';eontaIIlSJnfOl'n)Atl()naboutthat m'eetingtoo: Uponhls return from Iran, O~~n' ..
,.,6catanreported to'Apo thatthelra,nian authorities promised-all kinds of," ..y,'
'!,taçilitie~-to the PKK from then on. Confronted with.the file,lranlan authOrltles(,
+;bad toadmlUheyhave h~d contacts with thef?KK, b.uttI'Iey have,asked the"/
>gTu'1dShsideto prevent the activities ln1'urkC;lY!9f,pl~(Ir@ian) e~9ple's ,;.•••.•. .. t;
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Voiture piégée à Bagdad
Une voiture piégée a explosé, mercredi, dans le centre de la
capitale irakienne, faisant cmq blessés. Les autorités locales attribuent
l'attentat à « des agents du régime iranien ». Par, ailleurs,
selon MédeciBS du mnde, l'armée iraBienne a pénétré sur 20 kilomètres
à l'intérieur du territoire du Kurdistan irakien, dans la
région de Raniyah, au nord-est de l'Irak, et bombaiile cette vallée
et les villages envÎronDants.
L'HUMANITE/JEUDIS AOUT 1993
explosion which wounded five people in central' Baghdad last Wednesday,
An Iraqi opposition group later said it planted the bomb.
Saddam appealed to Iran to release all the Iraqi prisoners of war
(POWs) still held on its territory following the 1980-88 war.
The International Committee of the Red Cross estimated in 1992
that 20,000 Iraqis were being held in Iran.
"This has happened in a country whose rulers still claim that theirs
is an Islamic regime," Saddam said.
He accused the Iranians of carrying out atrocities during the war,
including mass murders of Iraqi POWs and executions of Iraqi POWs
in Iranian jails. The Iranians "perpetrated mass murders of Iraqi prisOners
of war with their hands tied at the battle front. They also killed
POWs in prison camps," Sai:ldam said, repeating allegations that Iran
has already denied, Saddam also said Iran bad not yet returned the military
and civilian aircraft Iraq had sent to it during the "Mother of all
Battles" -- a reference to the 1991 GulfWar,
Iraq said in April 1991 that a total of 148 planes -- 33 civilian and
115 military -- were moved to Iran. Iran said only 22 Iraqi planes landed
and it would not give them back without the approval of the U.N.
Security Council.
The first of five 101-gun salutes to mark the anniversary resounded
throughout the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday, Saddam did not
mention the Shiite Arabs who are protected from Iraqi forces by a nofly
zone imposed by the West. Iraq's main Shiite opposition group urged
the Umted NatIOns on Saturday to send emergency aid to the country's
southern marshlands where it said famine and disease threateped
350,000 people,
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