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Turkish Daily News
TUESDAY,JUNE6.199S
Diplomatic efforts stepped up
on UN sanctions against Iraq
Russian official:'We are waiting for (Tariq) Aziz to give his
agreement to the export of oil, in conformity with the U.N.
Security Council resolution which Baghdad previously rejected.'
Compiled by the TDN Stafffrom Diplomats also indicated that Iraq's fros-
Wire Dispatches . tration with the U.N.-imposed sanctions
~N~- Iraq has launched a dlplo- was growing. "The government believes it
ma~c offen~l~e to ~ uP.support for an has got nothing so far in return for its
easlD.g or hftIDg of cnpp~IDg U.N. ~rade efforts to comply with (Gulf War) disannasanctions,
Baghdad-based diplomats Said on ment terms," said a well~placed diplomat.
Mondày.
Iraq on Saturday accused U.N. arms control
They said senior Iraqi officials are. to off'lcial Rolf Ekeus of being èommissioned
lobby. member.s of the V.N .. Secu~Ity by the United States and its Gulf allies to
Council to.explain ~aghdad s pomt of VIew carry out anti-Iraq p'>licies.
on comphance WIth the 1991 Gulf W.ar The diplomat Saidhe expected a tou2hepcease
fIre ~e~ on ~eapns..The first step ing of fraq's st.ance towards t.he U.N.
!>fthe IraqI diplo~atic offens~vew~ ~aae Special CommissIOn (UNSCOM) ID charge
ID ~osc~w. fraq~ Dep~ty Pn~e MIDls.ter of dismantling Iraq's weapons of mass
Tang AzIZ, meeting WIthRUSSIanForeIgn destruction if its cruCial report to be submit-
Minister Andrei ~ozyrev, said Moscow and ted to the Council on June 19 is negative.
~a~dad h~d outl}ned ~ way for Iraq t.oend Ekeus, following his visit last week to
ItS IDternatio~aI IsolatIon after a senes of Baghdad, said Iraq was holding back infortop-leve~meetings.
. mation on its past biological warfare activi-
Rus.sla wants to see U.N. sanctIOns ties and he was not sure yet whether it had
against Iraq lifted but Baghdad must fIrSt come clean on chemical arms.
fiilfù all its obligations to the international The Vienna-based International Atomic
community, Kozyrev said.
Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Friday it
"We are waiting for A~iz .to give h~s had not yet completedinvestigatio~ lDtO
agreement to.the export of oil, In confOrmI- reIlOrts that Iraq was secretly working on
ty with the U.N. Securiry Council resolution technology to build a nuclear bomb..
which Baghdad preVIOusly rejected," a Iraq has dismissed the allegations as
senior Russian foreign ministry official, attempts to prolong the suffering of its poowho
asked to remain anonymous, was quot- pie under sanctions.
ed as saying.
The sanctions will nQt be eased or lifted
Iraqi Foreign Ministry Undersecretary until UNSCOM tells the Security Council
Abduijabbar aI-Douri is m Bonn for meet- that Baghdad has honored all its weapons
ings with senior German officials. Baghdad commitments.
newspapers said on Monday that Douri had The thorniest issue is Baghdad's past biodemanded
that Germany, a nonpermanent logical warfare research. ODe diplomat said
member of the council take "appropriate. Iraq would disc,Iose the biological promeasures"
to end the embargo on Baghdad gramme once It gets clearance from
oil exports.
UNSCOM on.other categori~ of weapons.
1'he newspapers also said a large delega- ''The Iraqis fear that this ca~-and'mouse
tion of German industrialists and business- game may not end and sanctions are really
men was to visit Baghdad soon to "develop hurting," added the diplomat.
economic ties."
Iraq warned last month that UNSCOM
DiI>lomats said that senior ~i officials should not expect it to continue cooperation
intenaed to visit France, Russia and China, indefinitely.
all permanent members of the Council with . It said it would soon decide to halt such
veto power, and all advocates of an early cooperation if curbs on its oil exportswere
lifting of the oil embargo.
not eased or lifted.
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