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Article: State Duma Insists Russia's Aid Plane Should Reach Baghdad
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- February 9, 1998
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Russia's State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznyov said here Monday
that the lower house insists that the Russian aid plane, bound for
Iraq with several tons of medicine, lawmakers and journalists, must
reach Baghdad, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Seleznyov made the comment after talking with the party whips.
He said the United Nations Sanctions Committee asked Russia to
provide a list of passengers on board. He said the State Duma would
give the U.N. committee a detailed material list, including the
names
of all 207 passengers and their reasons for making the trip.
The information will be submitted to the United Nations via the
Russian Foreign Ministry, said Seleznyov.
Russian First Deputy ...