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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:21:53 -0600
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Subject: IRQ-NEWS: Arab Parliamentarians Condemn U.S. Attacks On Iraq
Arab Parliamentarians Condemn U.S. Attacks On Iraq
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9.05 a.m. ET (1406 GMT) December 27, 1998
AMMAN =97 Reuters - Arab parliamentarians Sunday condemned the
four-day U.S.-led bombardment of Iraq saying it jeopardized
regional peace and worsened the hardship of Iraqis reeling
under the impact of eight-year U.N. sanctions.=20
"The aggression on Iraq represents a dangerous policy which
is against international law and shakes regional and
international security,'' Fathi Sorour, the head of the Arab
Parliamentary Union (APU), told an emergency session of the
APU.=20
The APU meeting was speedily convened at the request of
Jordan's parliament to rally support for Iraq in the wake of
widespread popular anger across the Arab world against this
month's strikes on Iraq by U.S. and British military.=20
Thousands of demonstrators in Arab capitals like Damascus,
Amman, Cairo and Rabat spilled onto the streets to express
fury over the strikes.=20
Protestors also vented frustration at their own governments'
failure to strongly censure Washington for worsening the
plight of ordinary Iraqis already suffering from U.N. sanctions
imposed on Baghdad for its invasion of Kuwait in 1990.=20
Kuwait, though a member of the APU, declined to attend the
Amman meeting, delegates said.=20
APU chief Sorour said Arabs were angry with the "selective
implementation'' of U.N. resolutions on Iraq to serve the
''interests of Washington and major powers.''=20
Sorour, who is also speaker of Egypt's parliament, said it was
no longer acceptable that Israel be allowed to get away with
possessing an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction while
Iraq was punished.=20
"Either the international community deals with the states of
the Middle East equally or otherwise it is unacceptable this
double standard,'' he said.=20
Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan, who gave the conference's
keynote speech, focused on the suffering of ordinary Iraqis
and said the sanctions were not an effective tool to enforce
the consensus of the international community on Iraq.=20
"The Iraqi people who have suffered a great deal should not
be left without a program of humanitarian aid which secures
their needs and eases their suffering which is free from
political objectives,'' the prince said.=20
But he evoked an angry response from the nine-member Iraqi
delegation by avoiding any direct criticism of the United
States or Britain for the attack launched against their country.
As the prince was about to leave the hall, an Iraqi delegation
member stood up and said they were not in Amman to hear
words of pity but wanted a united Arab stance against
Washington.=20
"We need a voice that does not fear America. In Iraq we do
not fear America, we are not begging from anyone,'' the Iraqi
said.=20
Iraqi National Assembly Speaker Saadoun Hammadi, also in
Amman for the meeting, said he was dismayed by the prince's
speech. He said Jordan and other Arab countries should
come to Baghdad's defense and renounce their obligation to
comply with U.N sanctions.=20
"The talk about the siege should be practical and the
important practical step is that Arab countries lift the embargo
and not the general talk that does not lead anywhere,''
Hammadi said.
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