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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhcvoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Basm Özeti UPI -25 January 200116:20 (ET) Iraqaccepts U.N. oil inspection team By WILLIAM M. REILLY UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 25 (UP!) - Iraq will accept oil infrastructure inspectors who will evaluate the needs involved in upgrading the country'spetroleum producing ability, U.N. spokesmanFred Eckhard said on Thursday. The last extension of the so called oil-for-food program, which allows Baghdad to sell its petroleum and use a portion of the proceeds to purchase humanitarian reuef, also clears Baghdad to spend up to 600 million euros ($553 million) for the infrastructure improvements. A provision in that resolution asked Secretary-General KofiAnnan to make the necessary arrangements, subject to" approval of the Council, to allow the funds to be deposited in an escrow account"and used, "for the cost of installation and maintenance, including training services, of the equipment and spare parts for the oil industry." Iraq was asked to cooperate in implementation of the arrangeinents and said it would in a letter sent to the Office of the Iraq Program, which oversees the oil-for-food program. Earlier this week, the spokesman said the experts had been ready to travel to Iraq since early this month, but that Baghdad had not as yet officié!lly notified the United Nations that they would be allowed in. The oil-for-food program, authorized by the council in 1996, was initiated with the aim of alleviating suffering of the civilian population because of sanctions imposed on Iraq following.the Invasion of Kuwait in 1990, which in turn led to the 1991 Gulf War. International arms inspectors, who were supposed to determine if Iraq was no longer producing weapons of mass destruction, have been barred from Iraq since December 1998. '. '" .. It It ,. Syria's Assad says US policies on Middle East peace have "failed" AFP - 25 January 2001 TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a visit to Iran has described the policies of the fonner US administration on the Middle East peace process as a failure, the official !RNA news agency reported Thursday. Speaking after meeting late Wednesday with President Mohammad Khatami, Assad said the policies of former president Bill Clinton's administration on the Middle East and the peace talks had "failed." "Syria wants a fair and stable peace that will assure the interests of all," said Assad who arrived in Tehran Wednesday on his first trip to close regional ally Iran since taking power six months ago after the death of his father. "I believe that our countries' good relations, which held firm under the most difficult circumstances, must be aimed at protecting the interests of all Arab and Islamic countries in the region," the Syrian head of state said. Khatami for his part said Tehran has a "special respect for the Syrian government's resistance against the Zionist forces," adding that both countries share "close views on the peace talks." He said the Palestinian issue was one of the most pressing in the region, saying "Palestine belongs to all Palestinians." . "A stable peace can not be reached without the realization of the Palestinian people's rights." He said the only solution to provide for and maintain the region's interests, as well as the rights of Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, was for all regional countries to shape their policies ~o"defend the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and the Palestinian intifada." "Our two countries are moving towards the 'realisation of the just rights of all Muslim nations with the cooperation of Arab and Islamic countries," Khatami affirmed. Early Thursday, Assad met supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is also expected to visit the shrine of late Imam, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder.of the Islamic republic. Tehran and Damascus traditionally take similar positions on the Arab-Israeli conflict and both support the Palestinian intifada. Iran, which strongly opposes the Middle East peace process, has refrained. from directly criticising Damascus for its on-again, off-again negotiations with the Jewish state. Arab diplomatic sources said Assad, who was in the United .Arab Emirates Sunday, could also try to mediate a long-running dispute between Abu Dhabi and Tehran over three Gulf islands claimed by both. Assad, who is accom,panied by a high-ranking political delegation, is scheduled to leave Tehran later on Thursday. It It .. If. ... 104
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka Çapê-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Özeti AP - 23 January 2001 U.S. Offers Use of Syria Pipeline By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration Tuesday offered to let Syria help Iraq export its oil, provided the revenue would be used to buy food and medicine for the Iraqi people under a U.N. program. Syria would have to make the request to the U.N. sanctions committee to designate the 552-mile-Iong pipeline as an authorized export route under the oil-for-food program, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. The pipeline runs from Iraq's northern Kirkuk oil fields to Syria's Mediterranean port of Baniyas. The pipeline was opened in mid-November with a shipment of 150,000 barrels of oil, which a Syrian oil industry source said was not for export but was only to test the reopened pipeline that was shut down in 1982. The Los Angeles Tunes reported Tuesday the pipeline is generating at least $2 million a day in illicit funds for Iraq in what the newspaper described as a smuggling operation, "one of the most flagrant violations yet" of sanctions imposed by the United Nations (news - web sites) after Iraq' s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The newspaper said illegal oil shipments also are flowing by land through Turkey and Jordan and via Iraq's sea lanes, but they are "nickel-and-dime" operations compared with the Syrian route. S~a and Turke~ ?~posed Iraq in th~ 1991 Persian .Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. Jordan tilted in Iraq's direction WIthout much cnticlSm from the Umted States, which apparently concluded the kingdom was vulnerable to its neighbor. Boucher declined to verify much of the Los Angeles newspaper report, which was attributed to unidentified senior U.S. officials, Middle East diplomatsand oil experts. "We've had conversations with the Syrian government," and '~they have told us th~t they do not intend to violate United Nations resolutions," Boucher said. Also, Syrian offi- CIalshave told the Umted States they have not reached final agreement to import oil from Iraq, he said. The U.N. sanctions committee has joined with the United States in looking into reports the pipeline was open for test flows or other uses, Boucher said. "What is clear is that we would support a request for this pipeline to be designated as one of the authorized export routes under the oil-for-food program, so that the payments then are made under U.N. control," he said. "We believe that other members of the U.N. sanctions committee would support that, as well." BBC - 24 January, 2001, 18:38 GMT Turkish police chief killed in ambush Gunmen have killed a provincial poliee chief and five other officers in an ambush in southeastern Turkey. The unidentified assailants fired on police chief Gaffar Okkan's car soon after he left his headquarters in Diyarbakir, the capital of Turkey's mainly Kurdish region. Earlier reports described the attack as a bombing. ... No group has yet said it carried out the killing. Mr Okkan spearheaded a crackdown against the Islamic militant group Hizbollah last year, and is said to have been on the group's death list. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said a "meticulous" investigation into the incident was already under way. TV footage of the incident showed the car's shattered windows and at least one body lying on the ground beside it. One of the assailants was also reported injured in the attack. Alleged links to state If confirmed, this would be the first time that Hizbollah has killed a Turkish official. So far it has targeted opponents like the Marxist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Hizbollah is held responsible for several hundred killings over the last decade. Its aim, the authorities say, is to establish a strict Islamic state. But a major police operation against Hizbollah last 105
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