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Article: Swedish foreign minister asks Turkey to allow Green Party members safe passage to Iraq
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- August 13, 2002
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Dateline: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Foreign Minister Anna Lindh on Tuesday asked her Turkish counterpart
to allow a group of Swedish Green Party members passage to Iraq.
The five-person delegation was stopped by Turkish authorities on Monday
when it tried to enter Iraq at the Habur gate in southeastern Turkey,
the Swedish foreign ministry said.
The Swedish group said it had received permission to enter Iraq on
a mission to survey living conditions for ...