Galloway, who is leading an anti-sanctions bus tour, also held talks with Iraqi National Assembly Speaker Sa'adoun Hammadi about efforts to lift the embargo, in place since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Hammadi thanked Galloway for organizing the campaign, which started from London two months ago, "aimed at bringing international attention to the negative impact of the blockade against the Iraqi people."

Galloway arrived in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, late Saturday at the end of a journey aboard a double-decker London bus that has traveled through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East to gather support for the lifting of the sanctions.

Speaking to Iraqi legislators, Galloway called for an end to the embargo "without conditions" and urged Arab countries to lift the sanctions "in solidarity with the people of Iraq."

He said Britain and the United States were committing a crime against Iraq by insisting on maintaining the sanctions, and questioned the reason for them.

"Is it to destroy the weapons of mass destruction, in which Iraq has become the only country that doesn't own them?" he said.

Galloway said, "They are killing Iraqis because they are Iraqis and not for any other crime."

Galloway is accompanied by a group of British, American and Arab writers and political activists on his campaign, called the "Mariam Appeal," named after Mariam Hamzah, a 6-year-old Iraqi girl whom Galloway sponsored to be treated for cancer in Scotland two years ago.

She returned to Baghdad last year after doctors said she was cured of the cancer, but came to the Jordanian capital, Amman, last week after suffering from a neurological relapse, almost completely losing her eyesight.

Galloway visited Mariam at Amman's al-Amal Cancer Center on Thursday.