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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti
Nàtions had offered an along and that
he had disdained. It provides for the
export of $2 billion of oil over six
months and the monitored import of
$1.3 billion in food and emergency
supplies; the rest of the money is to go
for Iraq's victims and the United Nations'
costs. The fmt food now is arriving.
It ShOUld.help' nourish hungry
!raWs, blunt th~ suspicion that the
United States has it in 'for the Iraqi world looking for independent-minded
people, allay the sanctions fatigue andregimes to topple. Saddam Hussein is
thereby extend their politica1life.an unrepentant and dangerous ag-
To suggest that the United States is pessor. Others have suggested indictpursuing
not just Iraq's compliance IDIJ h~ f~r war crimes and encourwith
UN resolutions but also Saddam apng his heutenants to move against
Hussein's departure is a bold step in a hun by offering them plea bargains.
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world of fragile states. But the United Another good idea.
States is not careening around the - THE WASHINGTON POST.
u.s. Meets With Kurdish
Factions
Wednesday, April2,
19975:04 pm EST
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Trying to help rival Kurdish
factions in northern Iraq reconcile their differences, a
U.S. delegation willleave for the region shortly, a
foreign ministry official said Wednesday.
The delegation is being led by David Welch, a top
official of the State Department's Middle East bureau,
said the Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Orner
Akbel.
Citing security concerns, neither Akbel nor U.S.
Embassy officials would say just when the Americans
would meet with the Kurdish leaders.
Officials from the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan met separately with
Welch last week in Washington.
The two groups had been meeting in Ankara to discuss
ways to build on an October cease-fire, but the talks
were stalled by the murder of a top KDP official.
The delegati~n will stop in Ankara for consultations
with Turkish officials on its return, Akbel said.
In August, the KDP drove the PUK out of portions of
northern Iraq with help from Iraq.
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