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Canadian Foreign Affairs Committee calls for delinking sanctions onIraq



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Dear friends,
 
The Canadian Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
has just released its fifth report to the Canadian Government. In this
report, the Committee specifically notes the inadequacies of the Oil for
Food deal, quotes from the March 1999 report, and calls for the 'urgently
[pursuing] the de-linking of economic from military sanctions.' The full
list of recommendations are enclosed below:

"The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade
recommends that the Government of Canada:
    Reaffirm publicly the need to address on an urgent basis the ongoing
humanitarian tragedy in Iraq;
    Notwithstanding the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1284,
urgently pursue the "de-linking" of economic from military sanctions with
a view to rapidly lifting economic sanctions in order to significantly
improve the humanitarian situation of the Iraqi people, while maintaining
those aspects of the multilateral embargo necessary to satisfy security
requirements and contribute to the overall goal of regional disarmament;
    Establish a Canadian diplomatic presence in Iraq in order to monitor
developments in that country more effectively and to make direct
representations to the Government of Iraq;
    Continue to pursue the broader issue of the reform of the use of
sanctions in order to allow a clearer targeting of military forces and
regimes instead of civilian populations"

The full report is available on: http://iraqaction.org/canparl.html

-Rania Masri p.s. If you would like a copy of the report as an MS Word
Attachment, please e-mail me at rania@alquds.net -----------




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