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