Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Revue <strong>de</strong> Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro<br />
<strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Baszn (Jz<strong>et</strong>i<br />
".<br />
'cUring Chinese support. .<br />
Bush had hoped to me<strong>et</strong> with Presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
Vladimir Putin of Russia, a man<br />
with whom he has established a close<br />
relationship, but Putin canceled a trip<br />
amid the hostage-taking crisis at a<br />
theater in Moscow.<br />
Y<strong>et</strong> another close Bush friend, Presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
Vicente Fox of Mexico, <strong>de</strong>livered a<br />
further blow to the U.S. campaign for a<br />
siDgle UN resolution authorizing use of<br />
force agàinst Iraq.<br />
Fox, who'has been frustrated by lack<br />
of progress innegotiations with the<br />
United States on other issues, including<br />
migration, said he backed the French<br />
approach. which wquld r~quire a<br />
second resolution to authOrIze force.<br />
only after UN inspectors reported. on<br />
their progress. . .<br />
Mexico holdsone of the 10 nonpermanent<br />
seats on the Security Council<br />
The United States and Britain must not<br />
only avoid v<strong>et</strong>oes by anyother permanent<br />
member - France, China or Russia<br />
- but also secure a total of nine of<br />
the 15 total votes. Mexico and Ireland<br />
had been seen as possible swing votes.<br />
Bush has appeared unusually tense<br />
and restless in some recent public ap- .<br />
pearances, including his me<strong>et</strong>ing with .<br />
, Fox, where he atypically interrupted a<br />
translator, saying, "I un<strong>de</strong>rstood wbat<br />
he said."<br />
Oh Monday, he warned that Presi<strong>de</strong>nt<br />
Saddam Hussein of Iraq bad "ma<strong>de</strong><br />
the United Nations look foolish," and<br />
that the credibility of the world body<br />
was at stake.<br />
Either the United Nations will do its<br />
duty to disarm Saddam Hussein or Saddam<br />
.Hussein will disarm himse~"<br />
Bush said at. a political rally in<br />
Alamogordo, New Mexico.<br />
If the UN refuses to act against Saddam,<br />
Bush ad<strong>de</strong>d, drawing lo\!.dcheers,<br />
~the United States willlead a coalition<br />
and disarm him."<br />
The administration has been operating<br />
on the assumption - and with the<br />
implied threat - that if the UN fails to<br />
act, Washington has the authority to do<br />
• so itself, along with whatever coalition<br />
of countries it is able toput tog<strong>et</strong>her.<br />
Iran view:<br />
u.s. buoys<br />
bin La<strong>de</strong>n<br />
Khatami assails policy<br />
oh t'errodsm and Iraq .<br />
By Elaine Sclolino<br />
The New York TImes<br />
MADRID: In a sharp criticism of the<br />
United States, P:esi<strong>de</strong>nt Mohammed<br />
Khatami of Iran has <strong>de</strong>clared his country's<br />
opposition to.a war against neighboring<br />
Iraq and charged that Washington's<br />
war terrorism is misgui<strong>de</strong>d and<br />
Des,!!ond Boylen/Reuters<br />
has strengthened support for Osama Mohammed Khatami with Jose Maria Aznar at the start of a four-day visit to Spain.<br />
bin La<strong>de</strong>n in the Muslim world.<br />
"Have the erroneous policies of the Khatami, a midlevel cleric who studied<br />
ble standard in the extraordinary reac-<br />
United States ma<strong>de</strong> bin La<strong>de</strong>n more<br />
philosophy, is the first Iranian leadtion<br />
against Saddam today, compared<br />
popular or more hated than before in er to make an official visit to Spain with the world's inaction when he<br />
various sectors of the Islamic world?" since Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi in turned chemical weapons against Iran<br />
Khatami asked Tuesday at a joint news 1965.He is using the occasion to press and even against Iraqi civilians.<br />
. conference with the Spanish prime his campaign for the "dialogue among "If chemical weapons are bad, why<br />
minister, Jose Maria Aznar, during a civilizations" that he introduced at the when they were used against us or Iraqi<br />
three-day official visit to Spain. United Nations four years ago. citizens wasn't Iraq con<strong>de</strong>mned and<br />
"Have the erroneous policies of the He <strong>de</strong>livered a speech Tuesday at pressured?" he asked.<br />
United States weakened Islamic trends Complutense University in Madrid on But Iran, which shares a long bor<strong>de</strong>r<br />
that favor wisdom and <strong>de</strong>mocracy? The Cervantes and his relevance in today's with Iraq, is vehemently opposed to a<br />
United States with its hegemony has world, and will visit the Spanish Senate unilateral American war against, its<br />
strengthened bin La<strong>de</strong>n, so we ought to and me<strong>et</strong> with business lea<strong>de</strong>rs Wednesday.<br />
neighbor and the installation of a gov- '<br />
con<strong>de</strong>mn it in some way for supporting<br />
He and Aznar signed bilateral ernment of Washington's choosing in<br />
terrorism."<br />
accords Tuesday on investment protection,<br />
Baghdad.<br />
Khatami even likened the logic ofbin<br />
tourism and customs issues. "We have said several times that we<br />
La<strong>de</strong>n to that of Presi<strong>de</strong>nt George W. But his news conference Tuesday are against any military attack on Iraq<br />
Bush.<br />
was dominated. by questions about terrorism<br />
and any unilateral action in resolving<br />
"I hear a discourse from two poles,"<br />
and war.<br />
international issues," Khatami said. "To<br />
he said. "One is the voice raised from Iran's position toward Iraq is complicated<br />
intervene in the internal affairs of a na-<br />
Mghanistan' by bin' La<strong>de</strong>n that says,<br />
by the fact that there is no love tion is a dangerous prece<strong>de</strong>nt."<br />
'Whoever is not with us must be <strong>de</strong>stroyed.'<br />
lost b<strong>et</strong>ween the ruling clerics in Iran But he called on Iraq to comply with.<br />
The other is the voice from the and the Iraqi presi<strong>de</strong>nt, Saddam Hus-<br />
Security Council resolutions, a~d hint-<br />
United States that says, 'Whoever is not sein. Khatami noted that Saddam inva<strong>de</strong>d<br />
ed that Iran would not object to the use<br />
with us .isagainst us.' ..<br />
Iran in 1980 and used chemical of force against Iraq if the Security<br />
He ad<strong>de</strong>d, "That is a logic which on weapons against Iran during the eightyear<br />
Council <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d that it had not.<br />
bor<strong>de</strong>r war that followed.<br />
"If in the international scene there<br />
one si<strong>de</strong> leads to the most atrocious<br />
forms of terror and; on the other si<strong>de</strong>, "Of course the whole world knows needs to be further steps taken," he said,<br />
on the pr<strong>et</strong>ext of confronting terrorism, we've suffered greatly at the hands of "we believe that there should be support<br />
creates the worst type of atmosphere for Iraq and the Iraqi regime," Khatami from the United Nations and the international<br />
community for waging war."<br />
said. He suggested that there was a dou-<br />
these.steps."<br />
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