Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti
The attempts to gather mothers in Greece and in southern
Cyprus are being made in order to hold a number
of events aimed at disseminating further negative
propaganda against Turkey, the intelligence sources
confirmed.
Plans to hold such events are said to have been engineered
by the Gree~ chairman of the Kurdistan
Solidarity Committee in southern Cyprus, Lazaros
Mavros, and a senior member of the ruling party in
Greece, Michalis Haralambidis. They also reportedly
received help from the official Greek intelligence organization
and the representatives of the separatist
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has been fighting
against Turkey for independence.
'Repression continues in Western Thrace'
The same sources also underlined another issue in
Greece, saying that the alleged repression by the Greek
government against its 150,000 ethnic Turks continued.
A majority of the ethnic Turks live in Western
Thrace, an area that consists of three provinces north
of Greece.
According to the sources, among the repressive polices
are the exclusion of most the Turkish minority from
higher education rights, the continuous seizure of
Turks' assets by the government, and restrictions on
their religious rights.
Key Arms Inspector Leaves Iraq, Ending
First Test of Accord
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD - Scott, Ritter the,
American head of a United N~tions
~eamcarrying out weapons inspections
In Iraq, completed his work Tuesday
and left for Bahrain, UN officialssaid.
.Since th~y arrived Thursday, Mr.
Ritter and his 50-member team visited
ei~ht sites that Iraq considers sensitive,
said Janet Ann Sullivan, spokesman for
the UN Special Commission' which
oversees the inspections." '
Sensitive sites include ministries and
headq~arters of intelligence or military
operatIo.ns. UN ~ generallyare ac-'
co~panled. ~y high-ranking Iraqi offi~lals
on VISitsto these sites.
Mr. Ritter's inspections were seen as
the first test of the agreement that Kofi
Annan, the UN secretary-general,
reached last month with officials here:
Iraq ,agreed to cooperate fully with the
~ ~spectors and to open eight pres-
Idential compounds that it earlier declared
off-limits.
The United States had threatened military
strikes to force Iraqi cooperation
but relented
reached. "
after the accord w~
, ~aqi sources said that among the sites
VISited by Mr. Ritter were barracks of
the elite Republican Guards and the
Defense Ministry.
'
. .. ~11 sites we~ inspected tothe sat- ,
Isfa~tlOn of the Inspection team," Ms.
, SullIvan said. She gave no details.
Mr. Ritter left for aahrain with "the
majority" of his team, she said, adding
that a few stayed behind to work on
other operations.
Earlier, the official Iraqi press agency'
quo~e~ Mr. Ritter as having told the
Iraqi Side that he "fmished his mission
without any problems."
• Annan's Novel.Inspection Deal
Barbara Crossette of The New York
Times reportedfrom the United Nations,
New York:
'
Mr; Annan has forged another direct
link with Iraq by unveiling procedures
he devised under which the presidential
sites will be inspected. '
The novel inspections, which could
begin in two weeks, are the latest of a
series of steps that a newly assertive Mr'.
Annan has taken that defer to Iraqi concerns
about weapons inspections and in
the process allow Baghdad to bypass the
Security Council. Inthe last two weeks,
the Iraqis, have effectively moved from
, near-pariah status to regular and direct
contact with the highest ranking UN
officials. " ,,
If President Saddam Hussein continues
to abide by his side of ,thebargain
struck with Mr. Annan arid does 'not
interfere witharms inspections at any
site in Iraq, the United States will be
sigriificantly more isolated in the Security
Council if it tries to punish Iraq or
prolong'sanctions indefmitely. '
Emboldened, Iraq is already trying to
test its power. ,
The country's foreign minister, Mo~
hatnmed Said Sabbaf, wrote to Mr. Annan
over the weekend, demanding to
know why arms, ~spectors were not
being disciplined for talking to the press
"despite the promises that have been
made to us.' High-ranking officials
said that they did not know what promises
Iraq was talking about.
On Wednesday, Mr. Annan will go to
Washington to meet with President Bill
Clinto~ and other high-level admiIù.,s~
tration officials to talk about Iraq - and
American dues owed to the United Nations.
The visit comes just after the secretary-general
made several pu~lic
statements in the last week supportmg
the view of some Security Council
members that in a resolution last week
endorsing Mr. Annan's Baghdad mission
the United States did not, as the
Clinton administration insists, win the
right to use force automatically against
Iraq. '
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