NICOSIA, Feb 1: Tehran is not happy that Iraqi planes have landed in Iran and will hold the planes and ihcir crews until the Gulf War ends, Iran's state news agency has reported, reports AP.

Iranian Foreign Minister Alt Akbar Velayati stressed Thursday during the talks in Tehran that his country intended to remain neutral in tlie Gulf War and urged Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, the Islamic Republic News Agency sakl.

Velayati was quoted as telling Iraq's deputy prime minister, Saadoun Hamadi, that Iran was unhappy that the Iraqi aircraft had made emergency landings In Iran without seeking advance permission.

Tehran says 16 Iraqi warplanes flew to Iran in recent . days and that 11 landed safely. The allies say about 90 Iraqi aircraft have flown to Iran.

There has been no official explanation for the development, although Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, In an interview with CNN on Monday, indicated he had sent them to Iran for safety .

Hamadi, a member of Iraq's five-man ruling Revolutionary Command Council, brought a message from Saddam to Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Iranian news .

agency said. It did not elaborate.

Hamadi also reiterated claims that Allied air strikes were targeting residential areas, the agency reported.

Velayati briefed Hamadi on Iran's efforts to encourage international relief shipments to Iraq of food and nxxlicinc, to be distributed by the International Red Cross, the agency said. Iran says humanitarian aid Is not covered by the U.N. embargo of Iraq.

Francois Scheer, secretary general at the French Foreign Minister, and Abdulaziz al-Dall.Yemen's minister of stale for foreign affairs, also arrived in Tehran on Thursday for talks regarding the Gulf War.

The French Foreign Ministry said Scheer would not confer with Hamdi or discuss new peace Initiatives during his visit.

France has contributed 10.000 troops to a 700,000-strong, US -dominated coall-

tton opposing Iraq. It Is one of a dozen nations participating In the air campaign against Iraq that began Jan. 17.

Iran, which fought Iraq In the 1980-88 war. has deplored both the Invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent foreign military Intervention. Vclayatl told Hamad! that peace could come only if both sides withdrew their forces, the Iranian news agency said.

Reuter reports from l.ondon : Iraq has dispersed Its civilian aircraft and some Kuwaiti airliners seized after its Invasion of Kuwait to at least five k>ca-lions In Africa and the Middle EaM. avlalton sources said on Thursday.

The sources said five Kuwait airways airbus 310-200 aircraft were believed to be In the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad. One Iraqi airways Bocfng 737 had been sighted al Tehran airport.

Iraq seized 15 aircraft belonging to Kuwait Airways after . It invaded Kuwait on August 2.

Two Kuwait planes, still In their blue and while livery, were sighted In December in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul site of a large Iraqi air base and target of heavy Allied bombardment.

The Kuwaiti aircraft in Iran arc believed to be among 100 combat, transport and civilian aircraft which have been sent across the border by Iraq — a move analysts say could lx- an attempt to safeguard the aircraft from Allied attack.

The aviation sources said at least two Iraqi Airways Boeing 7d7s were in Mauritania, the African country which has stood loyally by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein In the Gulf War.