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Two points: Much as I sympathise with the plight of those held by Iraq, there is something very sick about holding the entire Iraqi population hostage and contributing to the death of close to a million of them (people who have very little ability to do anything to change IRaqi policy), supposedly as part of a campaign to release about 600 people. And as far as the British position is concerned that the sacntions should nto be lifted until Iraq cooperates on this matter, paragraph 22 links the lifting or relaxing of sanctions only to nuclear, biological and chemical weapon and long-range ballsitic missile disarmament and monitoring. This implies logically that the sanctions could be lifted even with no cooperation regarding the missing 605. Having said that, paragraph 21 introduces an ambiquity indicating a possible link of lifting/relaxing sanctions to cooperation with all relevant UN resolutions. In the end it comes done to a matter of interpretation. ---------------------- Dr. Eric Herring Department of Politics University of Bristol 10 Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU England, UK Tel. +44-(0)117-928-8582 Fax +44-(0)117-973-2133 http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Politics eric.herring@bristol.ac.uk -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ***