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| Iraq conveys support to India on J&K issue |
| 2002-07-06 |
| Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Saturday conveyed his principled and unwavering support to India on the Kashmir issue and said Iraq greatly values its relationship with New Delhi. Trying to drive a little wedge into the budding American-Indian alliance? President Hussein conveyed his views to the visiting Petroleum Minister Ram Naik and said friendship with India had been a source of strength not only to Iraq but to the Arab world. Naik, who is in Baghdad for an Indo-Iraq joint commission, called on President Hussein and apprised him of the current developments pertaining to India and Pakistan. Naik also met Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadhan besides ministers for oil and industry. That's interesting. I'd have expected Iraq to have taken the Pak side. On the other hand, the visitors were Indian. Had the visitors been Paks, probably the support would have gone the other way. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |