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Article: Iran Attacks Iraq for Failure in Exchanging POWS
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 26, 1996
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Iran said here today that no progress was made in exchanging
prisoners of war despite four rounds of talks between Tehran and
Baghdad.
Abdullah Nagafi, head of the Special Commission for the Prisoners
of War (POWs), said that the two sides have already reached agreement
in three pages and seven points, but it has not gone into effect
yet.
The Iranian official blamed the problem on Baghdad, saying
"absence of practical measures for implementing the accord lies in
lack of authority on the part of the Iraqi delegation."
Iran is ready to hold negotiations on POWS with Iraq in light of
the importance Iran attaches to the war prisoners and those missing
in action, he added.
He expressed his hoped ...