Article: U.N. Relief Workers to Return to Iraq

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. ...

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