Vietnamese Flight Defies Embargo
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From Times Wire Reports
Vietnam became the latest country to flout the U.N. air embargo on Iraq when a Vietnamese plane carrying Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Cong Tan landed at Baghdad airport, the Iraqi News Agency said. The flight, the first from Hanoi to Baghdad since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, brought a delegation that included the foreign, trade and industry ministers. “The visit aims to hold talks with senior Iraqi officials to discuss means of developing relations between the two countries,” Tan said.
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