> > Wednesday, January 20, 1999 > > Ex-UN Aide Hits Iraq Sanctions > > Reuters > > PARIS - The former coordinator of the United Nations oil-for-food > program in Iraq said Tuesday that UN sanctions amounted to genocide and > that ending them would do more to weaken the Iraqi leadership than > maintaining them. > > Denis Halliday, a self-described pacifist who resigned in protest over > UN policies in Iraq last September after more than 30 years at the > agency, praised a French plan to ease international sanctions on > Baghdad. > > But, in an appearance before the French National Assembly's Franco-Iraq > Study Group, he said that UN members must do even more to assist Baghdad > and urged them to help finance Iraq's reconstruction, which he said > would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. > > He also urged the United Nations to postpone Iraq's reparation payments, > imposed after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, ''until the death of Iraqi > children ceases.'' > > ''I don't like the word genocide,'' he said after his remarks to the > study group. ''I think it's perhaps too dramatic. But the fact is, can > you find a better word to describe this sort of catastrophe?'' > > Mr. Halliday is touring Europe to lobby for an end to the UN sanctions, > which he blames for the deaths of 5,000 to 6,000 Iraqis a month and as > many as 600,000 children since 1990. > > France has proposed phasing out the UN ban on Iraqi oil sales, replacing > obtrusive weapons inspections with a looser system of arms monitoring > and continuing supervision of how Iraq spends the money it earns from > oil exports. > > ** End of text from cdp:mideast.gulf ** > > ********************************************************************** > This material came from the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), a > non-profit, unionized, politically progressive Internet services > provider. For more information, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you > will get back an automatic reply), or visit their web site at > http://www.igc.org/ . IGC is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) > charitable organization. > **********************************************************************
/** mideast.gulf: 363.0 **/ ** Topic: IRAQ: Halliday, Ex-UN Aide Hits Iraq Sanctions ** ** Written 1:24 PM Jan 20, 1999 by mideastdesk in cdp:mideast.gulf ** ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Wednesday, January 20, 1999 Ex-UN Aide Hits Iraq Sanctions Reuters PARIS - The former coordinator of the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq said Tuesday that UN sanctions amounted to genocide and that ending them would do more to weaken the Iraqi leadership than maintaining them. Denis Halliday, a self-described pacifist who resigned in protest over UN policies in Iraq last September after more than 30 years at the agency, praised a French plan to ease international sanctions on Baghdad. But, in an appearance before the French National Assembly's Franco-Iraq Study Group, he said that UN members must do even more to assist Baghdad and urged them to help finance Iraq's reconstruction, which he said would cost $50 billion to $60 billion. He also urged the United Nations to postpone Iraq's reparation payments, imposed after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, ''until the death of Iraqi children ceases.'' ''I don't like the word genocide,'' he said after his remarks to the study group. ''I think it's perhaps too dramatic. But the fact is, can you find a better word to describe this sort of catastrophe?'' Mr. Halliday is touring Europe to lobby for an end to the UN sanctions, which he blames for the deaths of 5,000 to 6,000 Iraqis a month and as many as 600,000 children since 1990. France has proposed phasing out the UN ban on Iraqi oil sales, replacing obtrusive weapons inspections with a looser system of arms monitoring and continuing supervision of how Iraq spends the money it earns from oil exports. ** End of text from cdp:mideast.gulf ** ********************************************************************** This material came from the Institute for Global Communications (IGC), a non-profit, unionized, politically progressive Internet services provider. For more information, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (you will get back an automatic reply), or visit their web site at http://www.igc.org/ . IGC is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. ********************************************************************** ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
