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Wednesday, June 3, 1998 Published at 15:29 GMT 16:29 UK
World: Middle East
Arab call for end to Iraq and Libya sanctions
The Arab League's Council on Arab Economic Unity has called for an end to the international sanctions against Iraq and Libya.
The eleven-member council says that an end to the sanctions would facilitate an Arab common market and alleviate the suffering of the Libyan and Iraqi peoples.
According to the Arab League, sanctions cost the Libyan economy more than twenty-three billion dollars between 1992 and 1996.
Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates has sent another planeload of medicine and medical equipment to Baghdad.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
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