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>However, he sets up an unhelpful either/or in terms of >'what to concentrate on'. Attacking on both fronts makes >sense, with those concentrating on whatever area in which >they feel they have most to contribute. > >Eric Eric is of course right to say that people should put their efforts into the areas where they feel they have most to contribute. My rather abrupt conclusions were supposed to be a suggestion about how those not at the coalface of research might try to respond publicly to the new resolution. I think the basic messages we need to put out are 1) that sanctions are not ending, they are being reinforced; 2) that increasing the flow of civilian goods into Iraq will not and cannot solve the humanitarian crisis which has kept a large part of a generation of Iraqi children malnourished; 3) therefore the new resolution is a con trick. I think that there is very limited scope for trying to persuade people that economic sanctions must be lifted because of the nature of the Red List, however important it is that anti-sanctions activists try to understand the new list (and my hat is off to Colin for his work on this). Cheers Mil Milan Rai Joint Coordinator, Voices in the Wilderness UK milanrai@btinternet.com 29 Gensing Road, St Leonards on Sea East Sussex UK TN38 0HE Phone/fax 0845 458 9571 Pager 07623 746 462 Voices website http://viwuk.freeserve.co.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://www.casi.org.uk