> >STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG > >http://www.russiatoday.com/news.PHP3?id=143526 > >Russia Says Worried By Iraq Dead In Western Raids > >MOSCOW, Mar 17, 2000 -- (Reuters) Russia said on >Thursday that it was worried by the number of people >being killed in air raids on Iraq by U.S. and British >warplanes. > >The Russian Foreign Ministry, in a statement, quoted >the Iraqis as saying that 156 civilians had been >killed in the raids and hundreds wounded in 1999. It >did not say when Baghdad made the announcement. > >"Of course these facts cannot but cause serious worry, >the more so that these acts, carried out practically >every day in the so-called no-fly zones, are >absolutely illegal from the point of view of >international law," it said. > >Russia has been the foremost proponent on the United >Nations Security Council of ending sanctions imposed >on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. > >U.S. and British warplanes patrol no-fly zones over >southern and northern Iraq set up after the 1991 Gulf >War. > >The zones, which Baghdad does not recognize, were >imposed to protect a Kurdish enclave in the north and >Shi'ite Moslems in the south from attack by Iraqi >forces. > >The Western planes have frequently bombed targets in >the zones since Iraq stepped up its defiance of the >Western-imposed restrictions in December 1998. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >______________________________________________________________________ >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
