* Questions presented by Iraq to the Security Council Baghdad 25, July 2002 Questions presented by Iraq's Foreign Minister to the UN Secretary General in the session of talks on March 7, 2002 and demanded the Security Council answer on them. 1 - What is your vision and assessment to what we have reached after seven years and seven months of Iraq's cooperation with the Special Committee and the International Agency of Atomic Energy? How would this cooperation be used to build on? 2 - If one or two of the Security Council permanent members say that they are not assured of disarmament, we want to know what do they want to be assured of? What do they search for? What is the necessary time to complete this? We also ought to be satisfied, not only the Security Council, in order to go on cooperating with it. If they have any doubt about a certain site or activity, we ought to know about it. 3 - How do you explain a stance of a permanent member in the Security Council which officially calls to invade Iraq and impose an agent regime on its people by force in a clear violation of the Security Council resolutions themselves which clearly state to respect Iraq's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and the rules of the international law and the UN Charter. At the same time, it demands Iraq implementing the Security Council resolutions. 4 - Is the Security Council seriously stick on its mandate and the resolutions which it issued, in particular resolution 687 on April 3, 1991, and the fair, legal reading for this Resolution? The Security Council is subject to the US explanation of the resolutions and to what it (the US) is issuing of unilateral resolutions concerning Iraq. 5 - How could normal relation between Iraq and the Security Council be achieved under the current, declared US policy, seeking to invade Iraq and change by force the patriotic political regime in it? 6 - The United States continuously declares that the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq will remain as long as the patriotic political regime in Iraq stays, what is the Security Council stance over this policy, which violates the relevant Security Council resolutions? 7 - What are the guarantees that the United Nations could offer to prevent interference between Iraq's relation with the United Nations and the political, aggressive US goals? 8 - The concept of synchronization in implementing the reciprocal obligations stated in the Security Council resolutions related to Iraq is necessary and essential to rebuild confidence between Iraq and the Security Council. What are your speculations on the obligations related to Iraq's rights, foremost the lifting of the sanctions, respect of Iraq's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and make the Mid-East region free of weapons of mass destruction. Those obligations, the Security Council ought to implement, to open a new page of cooperation between Iraq and the United Nations? How could we set up a mechanism that secures synchronizing the implementation of two sides' obligations? 9 - Security Council resolutions and not to demand the same from a permanent member in the Security Council which continues violating those resolutions, especially those related to respecting Iraq's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and officially vows that its policy aims to invade the Republic of Iraq and impose an agent government on its people? 10 - After disclosure of the spying activities of former UNSCOM inspectors and the International Agency of Atomic Energy according to the confessions made by some of the special committee members and statements issued by US sources and some Security Council permanent members and what was acknowledged by the General Secretariat. Is it fair that inspectors return to Iraq who could be used to spy against Iraq and its leadership and to update information about Iraq's vital economic installations to bomb them in a coming aggression? 11 - Could the United Nations secure that those coming to Iraq are not spies and will not commit spying activities? 12 - Could the UN guarantee elimination of the two no-fly zones? Could the UN guarantee the upcoming inspection would not be a prelude for an aggression on Iraq as in 1998? Could the UN guarantee that the U.S. would not attack Iraq during the inspecting operations like wise along the seven years and a half from may 1991 to December 1998. 13 - What is the secretary general view about the time required for the inspection teams that could make them sure that Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction and inform the Security Council on this fact? What are methods of which the UN thinks of using in this aspect and how far its coincidence with related international accords? 14 - How would inspectors of whom states are declaring the bids officially to threaten Iraq's national security and invade it apply international unbiased mandate on Iraq or respect the Security Council resolutions and their duties in virtue of the charter? The presence of US and British inspectors at the special committee and international agency for atomic energy helped in collecting intelligence data and specify locations that were targeted in their aggression. All location which had been visited by the inspections teams were exposed in 1998 aggression including the presidential sites despite the inspectors have affirmed being clear from weapons of mass destruction. Besides, the American and British have bombed all the industrial sites according to inspectors' data while they were under continuous monitoring. 15 - What is the secretary general's view over structure of UNIMOVIC? And is it plausible to approve some individuals who had violated their unbiased mandate and duties in addition to reputation of their organization (the UN) when they acted espionage on Iraq? 16 - What is the mandate of UNIMOVIC? The UN statement and documents released up to now are ambiguous? How far is the authority of its head? And what is the delegates' committee authority? What is the form of the secretary general supervision on its functioning. And what are the guarantees that the committee and its chief would not abuse their authority? What are the guarantees that this committee would not violate Iraq's sovereign rights? 17 - Dropping 120,000 tones of bombs, including 800 tones of depleted uranium, on Iraq during 1991 aggression and the aggressions that followed, in addition to the all- out, 12-years blockade have led to a semi- demolition of economic, health, education and service infrastructure. Iraq needs to utilize all its resources when sanctions are lifted to rebuild its basic installations. The question of compensations with their high rate stands as a big obstacle to this. What does the secretary general see to correct this situation? Does he intend to send expert teams to Iraq to discuss the question of rebuilding and its costs and prepare the requirements to urge the Security Council to reconsider the question of compensations? 18 - The blockade and the military aggressions launched by the United States and Britain against Iraq since 1991 have caused huge material and human losses in Iraq. What is the possibilities of reconsidering, within the comprehensive solution based on justice, for compensating Iraq for human material and psychological damages and losses that its people were suffering from on the same base adopted by the security council on compensation? 19 - Iraq has a firm right of self-defense under article 15 of the charter, though the security council had to abided with its commitments and respecting Iraq's sovereignty and territories integrity which encouraging regional and none- regional parties to violate Iraq's national security. How do you look at the question of Iraq's right of self-defense and the use of what the international law and charter secures it of the right to possess the defense weapons? http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews8.htm THE END ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrHhl.bVKZIr Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================