IRAQ has appealed to South Africa, as chair of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), to act to lift the decade-old embargo imposed on Baghdad, newspapers reported. Iraq’s deputy foreign minister Nizar Hamdun delivered the request to his South African counterpart Aziz Pahad, who arrived in Baghdad at the head of a humanitarian mission. It is the first time that South Africa has undertaken a humanitarian relief flight to Iraq in the 10 years since the UN imposed sanctions on the country for invading neighbouring Kuwait. Iraq opened an embassy in South Africa last year but Pretoria does not have a mission in Baghdad.- AFP
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