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AS BRITISH NATIONALS AND TV LICENCE HOLDERS, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY THE BBC HYPES
ABOUT BBC JOURNALISTS COVERING INTERNATIONAL ISSUES - BUT TODAY EXCLUDES THE FOLLOWING ?
PLEASE COULD ANY PARTICIPANTS ENLIGHTEN US ?? WITH APPRECIATION, Moonirah.
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With respect media and press recently missed an essential piece of the puzzle here ???
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The main 5 members of United Nations were meeting about Iraq in London 15/9/99.
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The Arab League Meeting listed this humanitarian issue of 605 hostages and PoWs - Kuwaiti
plus third-nationals held in Iraq, on their recent agenda 12th - 13th September 1999 -
'chaired' by Iraq in Cairo. A Kuwaiti official noted that Baghdad was boycotting
multilateral meetings on Kuwaiti and other Arab nationals allegedly being detained
by Iraq since its invasion.
Kuwait: Iraq Has Last Call on " Sanctions",
the Emirate does not oppose changes.
CAIRO (AFP) -- A Kuwaiti official said Wednesday it was not up to the Gulf state to work
for a lifting of the UN embargo slapped on Iraq for its 1990 invasion of his country.
"On the issue of whether or not to lift the embargo, Kuwait stresses that it is not a
member of the (UN) Security Council," said the minister of state for foreign affairs,
Suleiman Majed Al-Shahin. "By taking certain steps, of which it is perfectly aware, Iraq
can convince the Council members to change their stand," Shahin told Al-Ahram newspaper
after talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Mussa on Tuesday.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BRITISH
FOREIGN OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE CONFIRMS ABOUT THE AWAITED 605
DETAINEES:"SANCTIONS CANNOT BE LIFTED UNTIL THIS ISSUE IS RESOLVED"
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PROPOSAL FROM FRANCE ON THE WEB TO APPOINT A "HIGH LEVEL U.N. CO-ORDINATOR" TO MONITOR THE
ISSUE OF 605 KUWAITI AND THIRD-NATIONAL HOSTAGES PLUS PoWs STILL HELD IN
IRAQ:- http://www.ambafrance.org.uk/db.phtml?id=3092
Part 5.
Prisoners and missing persons from the Gulf war >>>>>>>> 605 KUWAITI & THIRD-NATIONALS
Iraq would have to cooperate more closely with
the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Every three months, the Secretary-General would draw up
a report on the status of missing persons from Kuwait and
third countries and every six months on the status of Kuwaiti
goods
and archives and would appoint a high-level coordinator
to monitor these issues.
Iraqi property abroad would remain frozen until the
Secretary-General indicated in a report that
Iraq's obligations in this sphere had been
satisfactorily fulfilled./.
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Copy relayed with written e-mail permission by Clari Net (AFP) 1999.
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criticalmass wrote:
>
> Saturday September 11 4:47 AM ET
>
> Key UN Powers To Meet On Iraq Wednesday In London
> Full Coverage
> Iraq - US Conflict
>
> By Bernie Woodall
>
> UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The five permanent members of the U.N. Security
> Council agreed Friday to hold a meeting on Iraq in London next week,
> including China which had refused to attend a similar gathering in
> Washington, diplomats said.
>
> Both British and U.S. officials said the goal of the meeting, scheduled for
> Wednesday, was to conclude a new Security Council policy on Iraq by the end
> of September when foreign ministers of the five veto-wielding countries meet
> on the edges of the U.N. General Assembly.
>
> A Chinese spokesman, Chen Ranfeng, said Beijing had accepted the invitation
> by Britain for a meeting in London of political directors concerned with
> Iraqi policy.
>
> He said the reason was that the London meeting would be a continuation of
> U.N. talks on Iraq among the five -- the United States, Russia, France,
> Britain and China -- rather than a ``new mechanism.'' ``And that's an
> important point,'' he added without elaborating.
>
> The United States wanted to hold a meeting among political directors in
> Washington last week but China declined to attend. U.S. officials said they
> backed a British-Dutch draft resolution but there is little chance China,
> Russia and France would agree without major changes.
>
> Britain will be represented by a political director, Emyr Jones-Parry, while
> Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering will attend for the United States.
>
> The 15-nation Security Council has made no headway in restoring arms control
> functions in Iraq since mid-December U.S.-British bombing raids. No weapons
> inspector has been allowed back in Baghdad since then.
>
> The British-Dutch draft resolution would suspend Iraqi sanctions on exports,
> such as oil, if Baghdad complied with key disarmament demands.
>
> The sanctions, imposed in August 1990 after Baghdad's troops invaded Kuwait,
> are linked to weapons demands.
>
> Britain quickly gathered co-sponsors for its draft among the 10 nonpermanent
> council members. They include the Netherlands, which helped draw up the
> resolution, Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Gambia, Namibia and
> Slovenia.
>
> France, in a rival draft, would suspend sanctions on Iraqi imports as well
> as exports immediately after a new arms commission is set up and
> functioning. In contrast the British-Dutch draft calls for several steps
> over eight months to make sure Iraq has complied with key arms demands.
>
> Nevertheless Britain has indicated it might consider easing sanctions on
> imports providing arms inspections resumed and financial controls were in
> place.
>
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