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-Rania M.
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 14:48:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mariam Appeal <ism@mariamappeal.com>
To: ism@mariamappeal.com
Subject: *****IRAQI SANCTIONS MONITOR (14)*****
*****IRAQI SANCTIONS MONITOR (14)*****
-US CONGRESSMAN TONY HALL RESPONDS TO ADMINISTRATIONS CRITICISM OF RESIGNING UN/WFP OFFICIALS
-FRENCH MILITARY MANOUVRES SHOW ITS “COMMITMENT TO KUWAIT AND SECURITY IN GULF”
-KURDISH SOURCES REPORT BAGHDAD PLAN TO SETTLE PALESTINIANS IN KURDISTAN
-IRAQI ANTI-SANCTIONS EFFORTS GAINING GROUND IN ASIA
-DAY FOR PEOPLE OF IRAQ IN LONDON, ORGANISED BY MARIAM APPEAL AND EMERGENCY COMMITTEE ON IRAQ
-US CONGRESSMAN TONY HALL RESPONDS TO ADMINISTRATIONS CRITICISM OF RESIGNING UN/WFP OFFICIALS
Congressman Tony Hall (Democrat-Ohio) has written a letter to Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright questioning the Clinton administration's negative
comments on Hans von Sponeck and Jutta Burghardt.
Hall wrote 17/2/00 that “thousands of courageous people, like Sponeck and
Burghardt, [were] working against almost impossible odds to help those in
need”, and that those he had worked with wer generally “conscientious and
careful in their evaluations of situations such as those the people of
Iraq now endure.”
“It appears to me that nothing Mr. Von Sponeck or Ms. Burghardt has
noted,” the letter continues, “differs from the reports of UNICEF, the
International Red Cross, and other respected organizations that have
examined what is happening in Iraq today.”
Importantly he added, “Your spokesman's vilification of these individuals
is unfair and appears to be an effort to stifle the expression of
legitimate concerns about our country's policies toward Iraq.”
-FRENCH MILITARY MANOUVRES SHOW ITS “COMMITMENT TO KUWAIT AND SECURITY IN GULF”
According to Reuters, French and Kuwaiti troops completed on 20/2/00 their
largest joint exercises since the 1991 Gulf War.
France deployed 1,500 troops, warplanes and warships in the 10-day
manoeuvres, code-named "Pearl of West 2000."
On an exercise range “usually used by American troops”, “senior officials
and visiting foreign military officers watched…as French Mirage 2000 and
Kuwaiti U.S.-made F/A-18 warplanes flew over French and Kuwaiti fighting
vehicles and pounded a mock enemy.”
Despite Paris's pulling out of Operation Southern Watch, the US and UK
“patrols” of southern Iraq, and its objections to repeated attacks by the
two on Iraqi targets, the military exercises “express France's commitment
to the security of Kuwait and the Gulf region," said French ambassador to
Kuwait Patrice Paoli.
Earlier this month “5,500 French troops, 30 warplanes, the aircraft
carrier Foch, three other warships, a submarine, tanks and artillery”
participated in manouvres in the UAE.
Reuters calls it “the strongest show of the French flag in the Gulf since
France joined the U.S.-led Gulf War which ended Iraq's seven-month
occupation of Kuwait, nine years ago this week.”
KURDISH SOURCES REPORT BAGHDAD PLAN TO SETTLE PALESTINIANS IN KURDISTAN
RFE/RL reports 18/2/00 Kurdish sources saying that Iraq is “preparing to
resettle as many as 500,000 Palestinians in northern Iraq”, in return for
the lifting of sanctions.
It was reported 11/2/00 in Al-Sharq al-Awsat that a memorandum written to
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, signed by former Kirkuk governor Jalal
Jawhar 'Aziz, said that "in this context the [Iraqi] government has begun
to give lands belonging to Kurdish citizens in Kirkuk, Khanaqin, and other
areas; lands which the authorities seized after deporting the owners".
-IRAQI ANTI-SANCTIONS EFFORTS GAINING GROUND IN ASIA
According to the Iraqi News Agency, Pakistani officials said at the the
latest meeting of the Joint Iraqi-Pakistani Committee that there was "a
need to put an end to this embargo so that Iraq may regain its stand
within the international community." Pakistani businessmen were reported
to be ready to contribute to the "rehabilitation of oil projects and
electric power stations."
Also, Baghdad Television reported on 12 February that Muhammad Mahdi
Salih, Iraqi trade minister, met with Thai Foreign Minister Dr. Surin
Phitsuwan to discuss the enhancement of bilateral trade between the two
sides during which Phitsuwan "expressed understanding towards Iraq's fair
stance to get the embargo lifted."
Thai rice exporters would be beneficiaries of the lifting of sanctions as,
according to The Nation magazine, they are still owed $72 million plus
accrued interest of some $52 million for rice sold to Iraq before the
outbreak of the Gulf War.
-DAY FOR PEOPLE OF IRAQ IN LONDON, ORGANISED BY MARIAM APPEAL AND EMERGENCY COMMITTEE ON IRAQ
DATE: SATURDAY 6 MAY 2000
TIME: Day – doors open midday
Evening – doors open 7pm
VENUE: KENSINGTON TOWN HALL , HORNTON STREET
LONDON W8
(Easy access for Disabled)
TRANSPORT: Nearest Underground: High Street Kensington
24 hour underground car park at venue
EVENT DESCRIPTION: DAYSCHOOL ON IRAQ
With guest speakers including outgoing U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Baghdad, Hans C. von
Sponeck, Rt Hon Tony Benn MP, George Galloway MP, Felicity Arbuthnot
WORKSHOPS on Sanctions, History and Culture, Health and Education, Religion, Women and Children,
Depleted Uranium, Campaigning, and more.
VIDEO SHOWINGS including 'The Big Ben to Baghdad Bus', ' The Ultimate (Uranium 238) Bullet' , ART
EXHIBITION,STALLS, FOOD
EVENING CONCERT
For one night only! - a rare performance by NASEER SHEMMA – world
renowned Iraqi oud player HAMID AL-SAADI and his group AL-CHALGHI
AL-BAGHDADI will perform traditional Iraqi Maqam songs With other
performers and special guests including playwright Harold Pinter Bar and
food available.
PRICES: DAY ONLY £7.50 (£5 CONCESSIONS)
NIGHT ONLY £25 (£17.50 CONCESSIONS)
DAY AND NIGHT COMBINED TICKET £30 (£20 CONCESSIONS)
ADVANCE BOOKINGS: Contact the MARIAM APPEAL on Tel: 0207 872 5451 Mob:07932 742 633
Fax:0207 753 2731
Email: trish@mariamappeal.com
ORGANISERS: The Emergency Committee on Iraq in conjunction with the Mariam Appeal
Website: www.mariamappeal.co.uk
Iraqi Sanctions Monitor
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