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News: Red Cross warns of deteriorating living conditions in Iraq



Red Cross warns of deteriorating living conditions in Iraq
12:50 GMT, 08 May 1999

BAGHDAD, May 8 (AFP) -The International Committee of the Red Crosswarned
Saturday that living conditions were deteriorating in Iraq under UN
sanctions in force since 1990.

"After eight years of economic sanctions, the ICRC is increasingly
concerned
by the steady deterioration of living conditions," the ICRC's
representative
in Iraq, Michel Minnig, said in a statement.

He said the ICRC has decided "to increase its activities in the field of
water and sanitation," in the rehabilitation of hospitals and health
centres, delivery of medical supplies and equipment, and medical
training.

"Nevertheless, it is the ICRC opinion that humanitarian action alone can
not
be a substitute for the country's needs," he warned.


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