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British MP urges Arab support for Iraq campaign > > Reuters, Sunday October 10, 9:12 PM > > ALGIERS, Oct 10 - British Labour MP George Galloway, who is leading a > pro-Iraqi convoy, appealed to Arabs on Sunday to support the lifting > of U.N. sanctions imposed on Iraq for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. > > "Arab support is of great importance to help the lifting the embargo > on Iraq which is causing the deaths of more than 700 Iraqi children > each month," said Galloway, quoted by the Algerian official news > agency APS. > > Galloway's group arrived in Algiers on Saturday and will move on to > other Arab countries on its way to Iraq to bring medicine and other > relief supplies collected during the journey. > > The convoy has already toured Britain, France, Spain and Morocco. It > is expected to arrive in Jordan on November 5 before entering Iraq. > > Galloway met several Algerian officials, including Prime Minister > Ismail Hamdani, who reiterated their country's support for lifting the > sanctions, APS said. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 send emails with attached files to the list *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html ***