CAIRO. Sept 8 Iraq on Saturday appealed for support from the Arab League to help bring an end to the UN imposed trade embargo. which It has stud la causing huge shortages of medicine and food, reports AH’

The appeal made here by its Arab League Representative Nabil Ncjm came as Yemen ■nd Sudan pledged to lobby support for Baghdad among the International bodies for an end to the 13-month-old embargo

Both countries had supported Iraq during the Gulf crisis and are also partners tn the 21 member Arab league

Nejm told ■ news conference here that the League's Economic and Social Council which met Wednesday and Thursday in Cairo had failed to reach a "formula to support Iraq's request" at the United Nations for an end to the embargo.

He reiterated that his coun try men were suffering from food and medicine shortages and recalled that a clause of UN Security Council resolution 687 which imposed the embargo last year authorised the dispatch of food and medicine for "humanitarian* reasons only.

Ne)am accused Kuwait of I blocking efforts to end the embargo by alleging that Iraqis had last month trfcd to infiltrate Bubiyan Island. A United Nations investigation said it was a minor Incident.