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> BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said on > Thursday that U.N. Security Council discussions on Iraq were based on an > Anglo-Dutch proposal which Baghdad rejected completely. > > ``The British-Dutch draft is bad and cheating, has not any positive aspect and > maintains the embargo on Iraq forever,'' Aziz said, referring to the latest > consultations in New York by the five permanent members of the Security Council > -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China. > > The talks, which began last week, aim at reaching a solution to the diplomatic > impasse on Iraqi arms controls and the sanctions imposed on Iraq for its 1990 > invasion of Kuwait. > > ``Iraq rejects any resolution which does not meet its legitimate right to have > the embargo lifted,'' the official news agency INA quoted Aziz as saying while > meeting a Russian envoy. > > INA said Aziz received a message from Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov on > the Security Council debate. It was delivered by the ex-Russian ambassador to > Iraq Nikolai Kartuzov. > > The council is divided over a draft resolution initially proposed by Britain > and the Netherlands that would merely ease sanctions in return for Iraq's > acceptance of a new arms control regime. > > It would lift a ceiling on how much oil Iraq could sell as soon as a new arms > commission was set up. It would also suspend sanctions on Iraqi exports and > imports after Iraq answered some key questions on its weapons of mass > destruction. > > Russia and France want a more flexible approach, saying Iraq should make > progress in implementing arms demands but without a requirement to achieve > specific results, diplomats in New York said on Wednesday. > > ``The two sides expressed their desire to continue their talks on the > development of the current consultation at the Security Council,'' > INA said of Aziz talks with Kartuzov. > > 09:15 11-18-99 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ***