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> News Groups Post: > > Re:London meeting this week between 5 main members of UN .... > > UN Permanent Members Make Progress on Iraq Sanctions:UK > > "Progress was made but eventual success is not certain," > a Reuters report quoted the spokesman as saying. > "There is no guarantee this will be achieved, but we must > explore the possibilities to create a united Security Council > position to put pressure on Iraq to meet its international obligations, > > Moonirah wrote: > >United Security Council position to put pressure on Iraq to meet its >international obligations,........ > >"international obligations": > = release 605 hostages & PoWs - > Third-nationals plus Kuwaitis, > illegally abducted '90 - '91 to > Iraq and confirmed 1998 on UK > Channel 4 TV as seen there inside > Iraqi prisons by British Baroness > Emma Nicholson - politician. > > Arab press recently stated that Kuwait is not opposing changes to sanctions ? > Although Iraq killed two Kuwaiti Border Patrollers this week. > > The British Foreign Office, Middle East Department correspondence confirms: > "sanctions cannot be lifted until this issue is resolved" - according to > United Nations Resolutions 1154 signed 1998 and 687 signed 1991 with Cease-fire. > > Across the globe, humanitarian campaigners and political activists do not > have the full information for their debates, discussions, news groups, forums, > petitions, rallies and demonstrations - unless these true facts are included > throughout considerations. > > I am not asking for sanctions against any country but I am quoting this > statement of our, own F.C.O. in London which also confirmed the same by > telephone to me: > > "sanctions cannot be lifted until this issue is resolved" - despite > ongoing speculation, plus some media and press now knowingly excluding > these facts also. However, it gets them nowhere, the sanctions stand > it seems until 605 detainees are released by Iraq and they return > 'archives' which they stole from Kuwait. At every meeting regarding > "sanctions" between UN members and our own British Government > representatives the humanitarian issue of 605 hostages plus PoWs held > in Iraq belonging to several countries is discussed. > > Nobody can ignore this matter, otherwise no progress can be made - > evidentially, the past nine years have proven this is true. > Unless you consider the foregoing you miss the point. > > Moonirah > UK > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > LONDON, September 15 (Xinhua) -- Britain said Wednesday that > > representatives of the five permanent members of the United > > Nations Security Council made progress in talks held here to find > > ways to ease sanctions on Iraq. > > "The permanent five political directors had a useful and > > constructive discussion on outstanding issues on Iraq," a > > spokesman of the British Foreign Office told reporters. > > The spokesman said ambassadors and other officials from China, > > Britain, France, Russia and the United States, the five permanent > > members of the Security Council of the U.N., would meet in New > > York later this week and early next week. > > "Progress was made but eventual success is not certain," a > > Reuters report quoted the spokesman as saying. > > "There is no guarantee this will be achieved, but we must > > explore the possibilities to create a united Security Council > > position to put pressure on Iraq to meet its international > > obligations," he added. > > The report said the meeting had achieved "some steps forward." > > All five representatives stated they wanted to reach a > > consensus on Iraq and suspend some of the trade sanctions in place > > since the 1990-91 Gulf War, the report said. End item. > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Please do not sent emails with attached files to the list *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html ***