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Dear Eri: Karol Sikora, Chief of the Cancer Programme of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Professor of International Cancer Medicine at Imperial College, London has alleged that 'Requested radiotherapy equipment, chemotherapy drugs, and analgesics are consistently blocked by United States and British advisers. There seems to be a rather ludicrous notion that such agents could be converted into chemical or other weapons'[Karol Sikora, 'Cancer Services Are Suffering in Iraq', British Medical Journal, vol. 318 (16 January 1999), p. 203. <http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/casi>.] Apparently he and a WHO panel investigated this matter. I have followed it up with Professor Sikora, and have received a reply, but only a quick and inconclusive from outside the UK. He informed me that the WHO did not replace him and does not do work on cancer any more. The Foreign Office maintain that his statement re blocking is untrue. For what it's worth, I doubt that they are consistently blocked now, although they may have been in the past. Instead, I suspect that sometimes they get delayed due to claims of dual use concerns and requirements for reassurance on end user for each batch. You can check the 'status of contracts' lists on the OIP website, but even then the identification of commodities for each contract is very opaque. Certainly, at this stage no conclusive, demonstrable claim can be made at this stage. Best wishes Eric On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:49:22 +0200 Eri Garuti <eri@deejay.it> wrote: > Dear all, > > I urgently need to know how to proove that the 661 Committee blocks or has > blocked medicines for chemioterapy. > > Thanks a lot in advance to all those who can give me any info about > documents on this subject. > > Eri Garuti > eri+AEA-deejay.it ---------------------- Dr. Eric Herring Department of Politics University of Bristol 10 Priory Road Bristol BS8 1TU England, UK Tel. +44-(0)117-928-8582 Fax +44-(0)117-973-2133 http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Politics eric.herring@bristol.ac.uk -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://welcome.to/casi