BELARUS REACHES OUT TO BAGHDAD. First deputy head of the
Belarusian presidential administration Vladmir Zametalin met
with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on 23 December, ITAR-TASS
reported. Zametalin presented the Iraqi leader with a letter
from his Belarusian counterpart Alyaksandr Lukashenka and
said that Minsk will soon open direct flights to Baghdad. For
his part, Saddam Hussein invited Lukashenka to visit Iraq. PG
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