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Dear all As previously announced, the National Coordinating Meeting of the British anti-sanctions movement has issued a call for national and international action against the economic sanctions on Iraq during the period 20 - 30 November 2001. Please start planning now! 30 November marks the end of the current, tenth, Phase of the UN oil-for-food humanitarian programme. At the end of Phase X, British and US diplomats are likely to push for the adoption of their so-called "smart sanctions" resolution, which has been condemned by Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday, among others. Hans von Sponeck has granted permission for the following statement to be used publicly: "Media work and awareness efforts in general during these next few months before the end of phase X of the oil for food programme are immensely important. We must increase the pressure as much as possible, particularly on the US and UK Governments, to make them realise that 'enough is enough', and that beyond the end of November it cannot be 'suffering as usual', with or without so-called 'smartness'." 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 local rate within UK Phone/fax 44 1424 428 792 from outside UK 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