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Article: Iranian President Calls on Iraq to Release Iranian
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 17, 1997
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami today called on Iraq to comply
with its international commitments and free the Iranian prisoners of
war (POWs) still held in Iraq.
The Iranian president made the call in a meeting with the former
POWs to mark their return in 1988, according to the official news
agency IRNA.
The POWs is one of the major issues that block the improvement of
bilateral relations between the two former enemies who fought a
bitter war from 1980 to 1988.
Iran claimed that Iraq still holds more than 15,000 Iranian POWs
according to the documents it has. But Iraq repeatedly rejected the
claim.
Khatami expressed hope that Iraq will abide by its international
commitments and pay ...