Iraq, which has been excluded from a revised US travel ban has called on Washington to respect the dignity of the six other Muslim-majority states and remove them from the blacklist.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump signed a new executive order affecting the citizens of Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen excluding Iraq which was on the initial list of banned countries.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Ja’afari reacted to the new measure during an Arab League ministerial meeting in Cairo on Tuesday.

He said “It is a right decision [to exclude Iraq] but I expect the US government to lift the ban on the other six countries

“These nations should have been entitled to dignity and sovereignty and their people should have been respected. Democratic countries are supposed to open up to them.”

The US took Iraq off the list after Baghdad started sharing certain data on individuals with Washington, and accommodated a Washington-ordered visa vetting regime.