NICOSIA . Apr 3 ; Iraq, which has been fighting revolts by Kurdish and Shi'ite rebels since Its defeat tn the Gulf war. issued new orders on Tuesday for 18-year-old nationals to Join the army, reports Reuter.

A statement by the General Conscription Department of the Iraqi Armed Forces gave a second batch of those who were bom in 1973 until April 12 to report for duty or face "legal measures."

Iraq issued a call-up order for a first batch of 18-year-olds at the end of last year tn the run-up to the six — week war during which the United States and its Gulf war allies drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait

The latest statement carried by the Iraqi News Agency and monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporations, said:

"Further to our statement of December 31. 1990, the General Conscription Department calls of conscripts inside and outside the country who were born in 1973 the second batch, to report to their conscription centres, or to the nearest ones If their centres •re damaged, during the pe- ■ rtod April 12-16. 1991."

The second batch Includes 18-year-olds not attending schools and those not tn the

ment lodged the latest in a scries of complaints Tuesday with the United Nations over what it said were continuing Saudi and US violations of its air space It ac cused both nations of having flown 62 missions above its territory on Monday and Tuesday according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA) monitored in Nicosia.

In a memorandum to UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Iraq's Ambassador to the body Abdel Amir ai-An-bari said that these missions "had troubled and upset Iraqis who were observing the fast.' of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan

He charged that the flights

were mainly over Baghdad.

It was the sixth such protest since March 3 when the temporary cease fire tn the Gulf war was signed, and the fourth in four days.

Iraq has already reported more than 2.073 coalition air missions above its territory since the signing of the ac cord, which puts Iraqi air space under the control of the US-led allied forces that drove Iraqi troops from Kuwait on February 27.