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Turkish Daily News
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SATURDAY,MAY27,I995,
Tehran sees breakthrough in
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500,000 Iraqi Kurds its relations with Baghdad ,
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Reuters
face starvation
Khorram said earlier on Thursday
NICOSIA- Iran said talks this . that a tentative accord on the thorny
week had led to a breakthrou
8 h in issue ofrisoners left over from eight ~
ties with itsarch-enemy Ira d al? .that years 0 war was reached but mad~
'We have food rations in ~.
our stores for only one I:rarations for a Baïhda VISItby no mention of plans for a VelayatI
's foreigri minister adbeen com.
month. l doubt that our
visit. Under the draft agreement on .
pleted. . , . . &risoners of war from the 1980.88
food distribution program : "Preparat!o~s for th~ VlSlt of an-Ira~ war, the two sides were to
for the coming summer
foreign MInIster (All Akbar) study etailed lists of sol,diers
Velayati to Baghdad have ... been .believed to have been taken pnsoner.
period will be financed' made," Deputy Foreign Minister by the other side, Khorram added, .
Agence France Presse .
Hossein Sheikholeslam, wasfoted His visit was widely seenasEart of
. ERBn:.. About 500,000 Iraqi Kur~s could face by Tehran radio as sayi~g, He. .d not an Iranian camp~n to woo riends
starvation if international donors fall to Pw for
gIve a date for the VISIt,the fIrst by to break out of a .S.-imposed isola-
food aid to northeriI Iraq, officials from the. odd
an Iranian foreign minister since the tion espeCially after President Bill
Food Programme (WF?) w'!I1ledThursday. (
1979 Islamic revolution. Clinton's ban this month on U.S.
"We have food ratIons In our stores for only
Important steps had been take~ to trade and investment in Iran.
improve ties between the two nelghone
month. I doubt that our food distribution frobors
during talks, in Baghda~ by a~
Iranian newspapers have in the last
~ramme for. the coming summer period wH be few dar been tryinî to convince the
Iranian delegatIOn, he saId. Ah bulk 0
manced," Peter Forster northern coordinator for Iranians sti I hostile to Iraq
Khorram, a senior advisor to
the UN group told AFP,. . • ."
after its 1980 invasion that reconcili-
Velayati, visited Baghdad at the head
"If that is the case we wIll have to stop It, he
ation with Baghdad was possible.
of an II-member mission. An Iraqi Khorram said the accord, yet to be
added. "People are so h~ngry ~d desperate that delegation would soon visit Iran to
they have started destroYIn~ theIr concrete houses
a~proved by bothsides, could solve
contInue the talks, Skeikholeslam t e long-standing conflict over 'Yar
to sell iron bars and blocks. ' . added, prisoners, one of several outstandmg
Lack of fundshave already forced the WFP to . Velayati was quoted by Iran' s Issues from the devastating war.
cu~ the number ofdOàple receiving monthly food news a~ency IRNA as saying the two Tehran demandsthat Baghdad
ratIOnsfrom 471,0 to 350,000. , . countrIes should "broaden their should free thO\~sands of prisoners.
Despe~~tepare~ts have offered their children to mutual relations". He made no refer- Baghdad denies holding any
rich famIlieshopmg they rrnght be fed, and some enœ to a visit to Iraq. Iranians.. ..
have even had to be st~ped
from poisoning their
offspring, Kurdish of Icials and residents told
AFP.
. "What we distributed last month did not cover
the basic needs, nor did it the month before,"
LE MONDE - 27 mai 1995
Abdirahrnan Meygag, head of the Erbil branch of
the WFP, said.
Necim Omar Surtshi, secretary of the
Conservative Party of Kurdistan(CPK), said some
p'arents had offered their children to rich families
,'not as slaves, but in the hope that rich people will
• TURQUIE: vingt à trente refeed
them," belles kurdes ont 4!t4!.tués et
In Beneslawa, in the Erb~l ~overno~ate, ~athers une qüarantaine interpellés au,
had been stopped from kIllIng theIr chIldren cours de plusieurs opérations mi-
because they could not feed them, reside~ts said,.
Iitaires, mercredi 24 mai, dans ..
Neciba Azid 37 a mother of three children SItdifférentes
sources.
l'est et .le sud-est du pays, selon
ting in an emtty house in Beneslawa, described .Par ailleurs, au moins sept per ..
her family's p 'ght. "For the last threemonths we sonnes sont mortes, jeudi 25 mai,
have been livrng on bread'and water ..
lprs de l'explosion d'une bombe:
There were many days when we had nothing to près d'une école primaire dans l~
eat" she said. She andother women confIrmed centre-ville. de Batman, dans Ie:
that some parents offered their children to wealthy . sud-est de la Turquie. - (AFP'
~eople to work for food. ~aci Hamma Ali R~a,
. 0, said he had only, SUrvIved s~ .far by se~IIng
almost all his posseSSIOns:a televlSlon, a refriger-.
ator and mattresses.. .
"People have no h0e.e. There' s no work, we
own no land" he said. Sometimes th? don't see
i
any' other s~lution than getting rid 0 their own
children. In their eyes, killin~s
sending them into the town tog."
still better then
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