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Re: Iraq - Iran Agree to Prisoner Release
From: POW-MIA InterNetwork
Date: March 13, 2003
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13 Mar 2003 14:10
Iraq says agrees prisoner of war release with Iran
BAGHDAD, March 13 (Reuters) - Iraq said on Thursday it had signed an agreement with neighbouring Iran under which Tehran will free all remaining Iraqi prisoners from their 1980-88 war and Baghdad will free Iranians jailed for civil crimes.
A Foreign Ministry statement said Iran would release 941 prisoners. In return, Iraq would release 349 Iranians next Monday and Tuesday.
"Iraq and Iran signed on Thursday morning an agreement including the commitment to release all Iraqi captives still detained in Iran, while Iraq will release Iranian prisoners in Iraq convicted of civil crimes, including crossing borders," the statement said.
Last year the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross said it had supervised the repatriation of more than 97,400 prisoners of war since the Iran-Iraq conflict broke out in 1980."
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