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UilitedNatfô1zs plans to set up new
export-impQrt monitoringfor Iraq
Reuters
UNn:ED NATIONS- U.N. disannament
offIciaIs said they were
setting up a complicated exportimport
plan to make sure ~ does
not rebuild its waf machine once
trade sanctions are lifted.
Rolf Ekeus, director of the U.N..
Special Commission in charge of
dIsmantling Iraq' s weapons of
mass destruction, told reporters
that thescbeme would eventually
require aU U.N. members.tolist
items bought or sold to Iraq that
could be used to rebuild its military
industry. .• •.•.
Because some of the tools,
chemicals or other devices can be
used for industrial purposes. also,
. Ekeus said his cömmission would
want a list of anything sold to Iraq
so inspectors could monitor them.
Although Iraq has been under
sanctions since August 1990,
Ekeus has been setting up longterm
monitoring plans in tI:ie event
sanctions are eventually lifted.
Without the plans, the Security
Council will not consider easing
the embargo. The plan was the
main topic of diSCUSSIOnlast week:end
between Ekeus and ~offi-
. dais wh() 11let in the Jordaniancapita!
of Amman. .<
Ekeus told Reuters that the commissiol);)Vould
also seek the ability
to moni.IDr goods at borders, sùch
as tp.e/one between Iraq and
Jordan, or airports if there was a
special reason to do so.
''But Idon't expect that we will
be systematically sitting at border
or entry posts, "he said.
Iraq s reaction was cool, diplomats
said. Ekeus said Baghdad
"had a number of concerns but
understands what and why we are
doing it"Under al991 Gulf War
cease-fÏre.resolution. exports from
Iraq. such as oil, can be lifted once
Ekel1sjssatisfied weapons have
beelldestroyed and the long-term
monitoring prosram is put in place.
The momtonng plan is the last
major disarmament project before
the Security Council can consider
l.iftipg oil sanctions against Iraq.
Ankara to continue efforts for summit
between Talabani and Barzani in Turkey
community to pressure it to stop. The
PUK leader sald the Kurdish regional
govel!lment should remain in power
but hinted that some ministers should
be changed and portfolios given to
Arat c.
"A serious reconsideration of the
whole working program in the area
Kurdish leaders welcome cease.fire agreement made in Silopi should be conducted by the PUK, the
ANKARA-
TDN with Wire Dispatches.
As Iraqi Kurdish leaders on Tuesday wel- sald, and confmned
KDP and the Iraqi National Congress
to adopt a new policy that would reinthat
the Kurdish leader would fly to force stability and democracy,"
corned an agreement they say will end a bloody con- Irbil in a Turkish helicopter when the date was set. Talabani said there ',\'as no need to
frontation between rival Kurds in northern Iraq, Ankara A spokesman for the Kurdist,an Democratic Party push fo~ new elections as polls would
declared that it was going to continue efforts for a new (!illP), led by Massoud Barzam, said the agreement be held m.1uly, ] 9~5,
summit. SIgned by .PU~ and KDP leaders ID the Turkish border ,He praIsed Syna and Turkey and
"A meetin~ between northern Iraqi Kurdish leaders town of. Sllopl was holding, "We hop,e that aH differ- saId they "were good mediators who
Ialal Talabaru and Massoud Barzani can be realized in ences wlll be solved through dialogue, 'he added. wanted to put an end to ti£htin£" hut
Turkey if both
spokesman Ferhat
sides agree," Foreign
Ataman said, He added
Ministry
that Ankara
I7evious tru~e agreements
whIch has claImed several
have failed to halt fighting
hundred lives in parts of
he accused Iran of "interfering to sup-
port the revolu~onary Hizbollab party
was in favor of such a summit and advised both sides to
f h lk I h h d h
come together or t e ta s, a t oug no ate as yet
been set for the meeting,
Talabani, the leader of the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK), described the agreement reached in
nortllern Iraq. A U.N, ottlclal III
Baghdad said on Monday that fighting
had spread to Irbil, the regional capital
d f th K d' h P I'
an seat 0, e. ur IS ar lament, for
the first tune smce the clashes began
on May 1. Nort,hern Iraq has be,en
and the IslamIC movement in Iraqi
Kurdistan."
A PUK statement later said that Iran
I hId
a so e pe the KDP, "Iran provided
bad:up troops and artillery observers,
~rtlllery shellings, rocket launchers,
Turkey on Monday as one "not only to put an end to u,nder the protection of Western allies lIght weapons, ammunition, military
fighting but to return things to normal," SInce the Gulf War and the PUK and experts and food supplies," it added,
Talabani said he was returning to northern Iraq within KDP have shared control of the area It urged the international communithe
next two days through Turkey and that he would since Iraq's defeat in 1991. Tur~~h- ty "to 'put pressure on .the Islamic
meet with Barzani "to reinforce the areement." based planes of the U,S,-led coalitIon Republic of Ir,an to stop Interfering in
Talabani, who has been in Syria SInce the latest flare
up, told Reuters he had been unable to go back earlier as
patrol northern Iraq to deter attacks by
the Baghdad government.
the domestIc
Kurclistan,"
affaIrS of Iraqi
his security was not guaranteed, "The situation now is Talabani's PUK accused neighbor- He said he understood Turkish senclifferen~,"
he said, Ataman co~mned that efforts were
contmumg to enable Talabam to reach Irbll through
Turkey, "We have agreed to his request in principle," he
i~g,Iran of fuelling the conflict by pro-
Vldmg weapons and support to nval
factions and urged the international
sitivities toward
WIth the outlawed
Party (PKK),
Kurdish
Kurdistan
relations
Workers'
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