Iraq and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday reopened the Arar desert crossing, Baghdad’s border commission said, in a long-awaited sign of closer trade ties after a 30-year closure.
Top officials including Iraq’s interior minister and the head of its border commission traveled from Baghdad to formally open Arar, where a line of cargo trucks had been waiting since the morning.
Arar has been closed since 1990 after the two countries cut ties following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.
Source : RT
