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[casi] "UN News Service" <UNNews@un.org>: SOME 5.5 MILLION IRAQISTUDENTS TO GET TEXTBOOKS THANKS TO UN FUND TRANSFER



Says here they will edit propaganda out, but omits any mention of what
propaganda will be edited in, or who is doing the editing. Gee, I wonder
who it could be who controls the content..?. %[ (Color me paranoid?)

I would have to have titled this "$6.8 million to combat smut", but I
guess that would have been TOO much like US yellow journalism. <G>


--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
From: "UN News Service" <UNNews@un.org>
To: <news11@list.un.org>
Subject: SOME 5.5 MILLION IRAQI STUDENTS TO GET TEXTBOOKS THANKS TO UN
FUND TRANSFER
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:00:05 -0400
Message-ID: <000401c35b7b$673f42d0$720a960a@un.org>

SOME 5.5 MILLION IRAQI STUDENTS TO GET TEXTBOOKS THANKS TO UN FUND
TRANSFER
New York, Aug  5 2003  2:00PM
Some 5.5 million Iraqi students will get textbooks and 25,000 teacher
trainees will receive salaries for the next academic year under a funding
agreement approved by a United Nations Security Council committee.

The project, worth $72.3 million in all, aims to print more than 66
million copies of newly edited textbooks for nationwide distribution for
the 2003-2004 academic year. Most existing textbooks were looted or
burned after the war. Adding to the challenge is a decision to edit out
propagandist statements from the texts without changing the educational
content. Some 509 titles are up for replacement.

The Security Council committee that monitored Iraq's purchase of
humanitarian supplies and food under the sanctions imposed against the
ousted regime approved the transfer of funds at the request of the UN
Office of the Iraq Programme, which oversaw the purchases under the
oil-for-food plan that is being phased out by 21 November.

Also approved this week were a $104 million project for fertilizer for
Iraq's winter wheat and barley crops, and $6.8 million for fungicides to
contain smut - a disease that affects wheat and barley seeds.

Meanwhile, the acting governor of the Central Bank of Iraq, Faleh Dawod
Salman, has sent a letter to the Security Council urging Member States to
transfer all frozen Iraqi assets to the Development Fund for Iraq account
that has been established at the US Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

On the humanitarian front, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
is sending a C-130 Hercules cargo plane from Turkey to Basra in southern
Iraq today with three prefabricated warehouses and 90 tents as it
continues to build up relief supplies to assist returning Iraqi refugees
and displaced persons going back home.

Basra and nearby Umm Qasr received 244 refugees returning from Saudi
Arabia's Rafha camp last week, the first UN repatriation convoy since the
fall of Saddam Hussein.

A second convoy with a similar number of refugees is expected in Basra
early next week, UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski told a briefing in Geneva.
In all, more than 3,600 refugees are expected to leave Rafha this year.

In northern Iraq, UNHCR has begun a shelter programme to help displaced
people who had returned to their original villages rebuild houses
destroyed during the previous Government's campaign against Iraqi Kurds.
 2003-08-05 00:00:00.000

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