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Article: Iraq, Iran to exchange more remains of soldiers killed in war
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 6, 2002
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Iraq, Iran to exchange more remains of soldiers killed in war
BAGHDAD, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Iraq and Iran will exchange 1,776
remains of soldiers killed in the war between the two neighbors in
1980-1988, the official weekly Al-Tihat reported on Saturday.
The exchange ceremony will take place on July 21 at the Iraq- Iran
border, in which Iraq will hand over 574 remains of soldiers to the
Iranian side while Iran will transfer 1,202 remains of soldiers to
the Iraqi side.
On June 18, ...