Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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 <strong>de</strong> la Prensa-Basm Öz<strong>et</strong>i<br />
Iraq Sanctions Pose 'Moral Problem' Says Chirac<br />
PARIS (Reuters) - French Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Jacques Chirac said on Thursday he was uncomfortable with continuing economic<br />
sanctions against Iraq, but said Baghdad had to realize it nee<strong>de</strong>d to co-operate with the United Nations.<br />
Making a traditional New Year address to the diplomatic corp in <strong>Paris</strong>, Chirac said long-term monitoring of Iraqi<br />
armaments should start immediately to speed the lifting of the sanctions. "Maintaining (sanctions) for the 10th year<br />
running and thus badly hurting innocent people already enduring great suffering poses a political as well as a moral<br />
problem," Chirac said.<br />
He called on the United Nations Security Council to reach a rapid agreement on how to implement U.N. resolution<br />
1284, which was adopted in December 1999 and offers an easing of sanctions if Baghdad allowed weapons inspectors<br />
to resume their work. Arms inspectors have not been l<strong>et</strong> into Iraq since December 1998, when they left on the<br />
eve of a U.S.-British bombing raid, launched because Baghdad allegedly had not cooperated with U.N. experts<br />
investigating its weapons of mass <strong>de</strong>struction. Chirac said the United Nations had to convince Iraq there was ~'no<br />
alternative to the implementation" of resolution 1284. Turning to the "Middle East conflict," Chirac said the<br />
European Union stood ready to help Israelis and Palestinians revive the shattered peace process.<br />
"Alongsi<strong>de</strong> the United States, whose role is irreplaceable, the European Union can make a useful and even <strong>de</strong>cisive<br />
contribution toward brokering the conclusion and implementation of an agreement," he said. He ad<strong>de</strong>d that no<br />
peace <strong>de</strong>al would be compl<strong>et</strong>e without Syria and Lebanon also being taken into account. "France's objective is to<br />
help Syria and Israel to overcome their mutual distrust and to renew dialogue," he said.<br />
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4 Jan 2001<br />
Saddam's son attacks Russian firms UPI<br />
KADI BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 4 (UPI) - The el<strong>de</strong>st son of Iraqi Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Saddam Hussein, Uday, on Thursday attacked<br />
a number of Russian firms with business <strong>de</strong>alings in Iraq for being a "cover" for U.S. and British firms.<br />
Uday ma<strong>de</strong> his accusations about the companies, which operate as part of the United Nation's "oil for food" program,<br />
in a report to parliament. Uday said some Russian companies "work as a front" for U.S. and British firms that<br />
boycott Iraq. He ad<strong>de</strong>d that these firms were being financed by Jewish businessmen and were relying on products<br />
imported from Israel. ' .<br />
Uday urged the Iraqi Tra<strong>de</strong> Ministry to be cautious and check the companies with which it was concluding contracts<br />
within the oil-for-food program, which is <strong>de</strong>signed to enable Iraq to sell oil on the world mark<strong>et</strong> in or<strong>de</strong>r to purchase<br />
food for its people. Iraq recently announced that the number of Arab and foreign countries benefiting from the<br />
U.N. program, which was adopted in 1996, reached 71, with Russian firms having won contracts at more than $2.5<br />
billion. --<br />
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January 3, 2001<br />
Iraq oil contracts no longer to be assigned to phases<br />
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations has <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to no longer assign Iraq oil sales contracts to particular<br />
six-month phases of the oil-for-food program, a U.N. official said Wednesday. The U.N. Iraqi sanctions committee<br />
approved the change on advice of the U.N.'s in-house oil advisers, the overseers of the program.<br />
This will offer Baghdad less rationale to disrupt oil exports at the "rollovers," or cusps, of the six-month phases of<br />
the program, said Raad Alkadiri, analyst with the P<strong>et</strong>roleum Finance Co.<br />
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