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Article: U.N. Relief Workers to Return to Iraq
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 15, 1998
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U.N. relief workers evacuated to Jordan last week amid the
lastest
Iraq-U.N. standoff will return to Iraq Monday to resume their
operations, said a U.N. official here Monday.
Eric Falt, spokesman for the U.N. Office of Humanitarian
Coordinator in Iraq, told reporters that 30 relief workers will
arrive by plane at Habbaniya airport, 80 kilometers west of Baghdad
at 1:30 p.m. local time (1030 GMT).
And 121 more staff members are expected to return via the
Amman-Baghdad highway, the major land route to and from Iraq.
Some 150 U.N. humanitarian staff pulled out from Iraq last
Wednesday and Thursday as "precautionary measure" to ensure their
safety as the U.S. threatened to strike against Iraq. ...