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Participants recently included their view together with articles posted. Therefore I respectfully suggest that this is the first item which is seen to at least come close to the real facts about Britain's New Draft Proposal - a means to an end for including reference to the UN Tripartite. Moonirah, Cardiff, Wales, UK. ++++++++++ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > * " Al-Jumhuriya branded the talks as an attempt to "re-write UN resolutions in a bid to maintain the sanctions and impose a mandate on Iraq. " > +++++++ > AFP wrote: > BAGHDAD, Nov 17 - Baghdad on Wednesday said it was losing > patience with UN deliberations on the future of the embargo placed > on Iraq, reiterating its rejection of all proposals stopping short > of an end to sanctions. > "We have been patient long enough in the face of sanctions and > we have been more than patient in the face of the military > aggression in the north and south," the official Al-Jumhuriya > newspaper said. > It warned that "we will not stay with our arms folded" if the > sanctions and US-British patrols of no-fly zones over Iraq are > maintained. > Its warning came as the US State Department on Tuesday said the > permanent members of the UN Security Council had made a lot of > progress in discussions on a resolution lifting sanctions against > Iraq. > The permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the > United States, met again Tuesday to try to work out an agreement, > but Rubin said that it might still be several weeks before a > resolution was passed. > The five have been trying for months to agree on what arms > control measures Iraq must take in exchange for suspending the > embargo. > > * Al-Jumhuriya branded the talks as an attempt to "re-write UN > resolutions in a bid to maintain the sanctions and impose a mandate > on Iraq." > And Iraqi MP Khaled ad-Duri on Wednesday told AFP that Baghdad > would reject all new UN resolutions that do not lead to a lifting of > the sanctions first imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. > "We have a position of principle, we reject all decisions or all > resolutions that do not lead to a lifting of the embargo," the head > of the parliament's Arab and international relations committee > said. > Duri also slammed the security council members for "debating the > suffering of the Iraqi people without asking the advice of Iraqi > officials." > He dismissed the US-backed Anglo-Dutch proposal being discussed > as an attempt to prolong sanctions and said Iraq "categorically > rejects it." > The Anglo-Dutch proposal would suspend the sanctions against > Iraq, provided Baghdad cooperated with UN arms inspectors. > A deal would break a stalemate on a weapons inspection regime > since Iraq expelled the experts of the UN Special Commission > (UNSCOM) nearly a year ago. > The proposed resolution would replace competing proposals from > Russia and France, which were considerably more lenient in > interpreting Iraq's disarmament obligations and called for lifting > the sanctions. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ***