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Albright firm.on Iraq's territorial integrity
Ankara- Turkish Daily News
• The United States has given yet
another clear indication that, when it
comes to Iraq, it'll s.iml?ly be m?re
of the same - that IS, 'res~t' for -
Iraq' s "territorial integrity' while
keeping the U.S. pressure and U.N.
monitoring regime tight in place.
Among the conditions that
Washingtott demands Baghdad satisfy
are returning all the valuables
stolen by Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait,
accountmg for all the missing
Kuwaitis, and quitting support for
terrorism. .
U.S. Secre~ of State Madeleine
K. Albright, dunng a speech she
delivered at Georgetown University
repeated Washington's sup,port for
Iraq's "territorial integrity' while -
warning that the only way
U.S. Secretary of State Albright
WashinS!0n' s squeeze on Iraq would
relax is if the regime in Baghdad Britain in Operation Northern Watch
would be replaced with a more over northern Iraq, does not share
democratic and pluralistic one. Washington' s zeal to remove
Since the GulfWar of 1991, the Saddam and has expressed many
United States has applied a policy of times in the past its willingness to
"containment" on Iraq, supported by work for.closer ties with the current
one of the most stringent monitoring Baghdad regime.
programs in history to flush out - Respondmg to a question,
Iraq's secret weapons of mass Albright said Washington was
destruction program.
applymg a "pincer" tactic against
Albright said the United States, as Iran as well. She added that
well as the Kurdish groups in northern
Iraq wére in close cooperation against &oth Iraq and Iran. The
Washington has the correct policy
with Turkey, and Britain to bring "dual containment" policy on Iraq
about a stable and pluralistic order to and Iran was devised by the current
northern Iraq.
U.S. Ambassadortolsrael, Martin
She said the American policy, Indyk, who after the Gulf War
which àims at removal of Iraqi worked at the White House as
President Saddam Hussein from President Clinton's special coordinator
for Middle Eastern affairs.
power in Baghdad, will never
change no matter how long it takes
to get rid of Saddam. Turkey, which Central Goals
participates with America and . During the "Jesse Helms Lecture"
she delivered at Wingate University
in North Carolina, Albright listed the
three "central goals" American foreign
policy as follows:.
"First. we strive to keep our people
safe by defending agamst threats
to our security and that 'of our allies
and fiends." -
"Second, we work to keep our
people prosperous by creating an
ever-expanding global economy, in
which f.merican genius and productivity
receive their due."
"And third, we are determined to
keep our people free by promoting
the principles and values u~n which
America's democracy and Identity
are based." Albri~ht claimed the
American people 'are safer than at
any time in memory."
Trapped in a "box:"
Again referring to Saddam Hussein,
Albright said Saddam was "trapped
in a strategic box,unable to threaten
Iraq's neighbors - or us." Saddam
has driven north of 36th parallel in
September 1996 with hundreds of
tanks to suppoä the Kurdish
Democratic Party forces of Massoud
Barzani capture the regional administrative
center of Erbil from Jalal
Talabani's Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan.
Clinton Administration officials
since then have denied that Saddam
Hussein has gained anything from
his successful military drive into
northern Iraq under the passive -
watch of "Operation Provide
Comfort." CIA's former director
John Deutsch, however, has paid the
price of admitting Saddam's
enhanced political profile as a result
by losing his post during President
Clinton' s second term.
Turkey and Germany purringquietly
after their heated diplomatic blow-up
But Kinkel, Çil1er have only
papered over the conflict
WOLFGANG KOYDL
~Iunich-Sueddeutsche Zeitung - GNNS
• The prelude to Klaus Kinkel' s trip to
Turkey contained all the essential ingredients
of a farce. It is hard to take it seriously
when the German foreign minister, on the
basis of a simple news agency report. loses
his head and delays an already long-overdue
~~ -
.- The only consolati~n is th~t.the Turks
also lost their cool: Pnme MImster
Necmettin Erbakan by suggesting that
Kinkel should "bow his head in shame" over
Germany' s opposition to admitting Tu~key
to the European Union (EU), and Foreign
Minister Tansu Çiller for pointedly downgrading
the protocol of the v~sit. .
Kinkel' s welcome at ~e ~rt ~as so
cool and low-key that Çl11er ffilg~t ~ust as
well have told a messenger to Walt ln the
arnvals hall with a cardboard sign saying
"Mr. Kinkel." Well, perhaps things have to
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