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,BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ,RMSTA STAMPA,DENTRO DE LA PRENSA,BASIN ÖZETi<br />
Ankara g<strong>et</strong>s positive reaction from the<br />
United States on Iraq pipeline flushing<br />
Tile Associated Press<br />
WASHINGTON- The United States has given a<br />
positive response to Turkey's request that it be allowed<br />
to flush oil from an Iraqi pipeline and use the oil for its<br />
own purposes, a Turkish official said.<br />
Oz<strong>de</strong>m Sanberk, un<strong>de</strong>rsecr<strong>et</strong>ary of the Turkish<br />
Foreign Ministry, said he would spend two more days<br />
next week trying to work out the project with the U. N.<br />
Security Council which is enforcing sanctions including<br />
an oil embargo against Iraq.<br />
The pipeline which carried oil from Iraqi <strong>de</strong>posits<br />
across Turkey to the ~editerranean, w~s.c1osedby the<br />
embargo. But it contams about 12 ffillhon barrels of<br />
~. .<br />
Turkey has been trying to gain an exemp\1on from<br />
the embargo to flush the oil out of the pipeline and<br />
refill it twice in what Sanberk called a "rescue operation"<br />
to keep the line in operating condition.<br />
Turks also argue that the move would give them some<br />
<strong>de</strong>served finanCIalrelief from the oil transit revenues lost<br />
as a result of-the embargo.<br />
"Turkey should not be penalized as a result of the<br />
embargo,' Sanberk said. "The embargo is on Iraq, not<br />
Turkey."<br />
The United States, while praising Turkey's cooperation<br />
with the Gulf War allies and acknowledging its economic<br />
sacrifice, has been resisting releasin~ oil from the<br />
pipeline on the grounds that it would weaken the embargo.<br />
Sanberk was asked wh<strong>et</strong>her he got a positive reaction<br />
m two days of talks with U.S. officials on the pipeline<br />
request. "Yes, <strong>de</strong>finitely," he said. .<br />
U.S. State Department officials, asked about the talks,<br />
did not r<strong>et</strong>urn a phone call.<br />
Sanberk said complicated problems remain to be<br />
worked out with the Security Council including the question<br />
of payment for the 24 million barrels of oil which<br />
would be worth about $4()() million on the open mart..l:l.<br />
More than two-thirds of the oil belongs to Iraq, the rest to<br />
Turkey.<br />
Sanberk said that the oil would not be sold on the<br />
international mark<strong>et</strong> but would be used by Turkey. He<br />
said that after the pipeline was flushed and refilled twice<br />
it would be closed again. Sanberk said the Turkish government<br />
does not link the oil release with Turkey's permission<br />
for the allies to use Turkish facilities to maintain<br />
a protective air umbrella over Kurds exercising autonomy<br />
from Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq in Operation<br />
Provi<strong>de</strong> Comfort.<br />
But he said there are members of the Turkish parliament,<br />
which must a~prove extensions of the permIssion,<br />
who make the link. 'We think we are entitled to request<br />
it," he said. "We have committed ourselves to protecting<br />
the Iraqi Kurds. But this should not mean damage to our<br />
own country. We have ma<strong>de</strong> great sacrifices."<br />
Les peshmergas se sont déchirés pendant cinq semaines<br />
A près<br />
R<strong>et</strong>our au calme au Kurdistan irakien<br />
un bon mois <strong>de</strong> combats<br />
fratrici<strong>de</strong>s entre fac-<br />
tions kur<strong>de</strong>s irakiennes, un énième<br />
cessez-le-feu semble à présent<br />
respecté, <strong>de</strong>puis Que les<br />
chefs <strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong>ux camps en présence<br />
se sont rencontrés dimanche<br />
à Erbil, c capitale • du<br />
Kurdistan. MassoLatBarzani, du<br />
PDK, <strong>et</strong> Jalal Talàbani, <strong>de</strong> l'UPK,<br />
se sont donc enfin parlé ...-;-au<br />
cours d'une réunion décrite par<br />
l'envoyé du britannique c In<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt.<br />
comme tendue à souhait<br />
-, alors Qu'au moins Quel-<br />
Que Quatre cents Peshmer~as<br />
(combattants kur<strong>de</strong>s) auraient<br />
déjà été tués dans <strong>de</strong>s combats<br />
QUI ont divisé en <strong>de</strong>ux c<strong>et</strong>te<br />
partie <strong>de</strong> l'Irak échappant au<br />
contrOle <strong>de</strong> Saddam Hussein<br />
<strong>de</strong>puis 1991 <strong>et</strong> l'instauration<br />
d'une zone <strong>de</strong> protection aérienne<br />
assurée par les avions alliés<br />
stationnés en Turquie. En outre,<br />
les protagonistes s'accusent<br />
mutuellement d'avoir procédé à<br />
<strong>de</strong>s exécutions sommaires <strong>de</strong><br />
prisonniers.<br />
L'origine <strong>de</strong>s heurts serait une<br />
banale Querelle <strong>de</strong> nature fon-<br />
cière entre propriétaires <strong>de</strong>s<br />
clans rivaux. Mais la. rapidité<br />
avec laquelle les combats se<br />
sont étendus dans le Kurdistan<br />
irakien, <strong>et</strong> la férocité <strong>de</strong> ceux-