>From: Mark Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [pttp] IRAQ SANCTIONS MONITOR Number 109 : > >IRAQ SANCTIONS MONITOR Number 109 >Monday, August 21 2000 > > >PLEASE NOTE THE MARIAM APPEAL HAS MOVED. >THE NEW CONTACT NUMBERS ARE: >TEL: +44 (0)20 7403 5200 >FAX: +44 (0)20 7 403 3823 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Mariam Appeal to launch Iraq International >Work Brigades > >The London based Mariam Appeal recently announced their plans to form >monthly international work brigades who will help build a friendship village >in Iraq beginning May 2001. Mr Stuart Halford the Director of the Mariam >Appeal told ISM that the monthly work brigades will under the supervision of >Iraqi tradesmen and engineers engage in "reconciliation through >reconstruction" in an original form of international solidarity. > >Brigadiers will be in Iraq for exactly one month at a time from May until >October 2001 and every year thereafter. They will have a programme of >construction work in the mornings, lectures and discussions in the >afternoons and social and cultural activities in the evenings. Participants >should be able to speak either English or Arabic (there will be a translator >always on hand) and should be aged 18 and over. And of course they will need >to be fit enough for light construction duties and the heat of the Iraqi >summer. Brigadiers will be asked to make a contribution towards travel to >Amman. All other costs will be met by the Mariam Appeal which will fundraise >for that purpose. > >For further information please contact Stuart Halford at the Mariam >Appeal on [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by telephone on (0044) 207 403 5200 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------------- > >Iraq says it shot down U.S. F-14 fighter in mid-July. >Iraq shot down a U.S. F-14 fighter over the southern no-fly zone in >mid-July, an Iraqi military spokesman said Saturday. >Gen. Yassin Jassim, spokesman for the Iraqi Air Defense Command, said the >U.S. plane crashed inside Saudi Arabian territory. > >The U.S. Navy recently said in a statement that an F-14 fighter crashed in >the Saudi Arabian desert during a training flight July 26 and the two crew >escaped unharmed. > >Jassim told a press briefing that the U.S. has claimed the planes Iraq shot >down in the two no-fly zones to be "crashing in military exercises," he >said. >(c) 2000 KYODO NEWS. > > >Stop the bombing. >We must find a better way to deal with Iraq. > >Without fanfare Britain and the United States have resumed their bombing of >Iraq. Whether or not the official Iraqi reports that the latest attacks >killed civilians are true, the bombing is unnecessary and reckless. After >long debate the United Nations passed a resolution many months ago setting >up a new inspection system designed mainly to check Iraqi progress in >dismantling its weapons of mass destruction and the potential to re-create >them. The inspectors have recruited their team and will soon be ready to >visit Baghdad. Although Iraq has not yet said it will accept them, for some >weeks it has not repeated its statements rejecting the resolution that set >up the inspection team. There is therefore an opportunity that could make it >easier for the team to start work. > >Air attacks on Iraq at this moment cannot help the climate. To claim, as the >United States and Britain do, that they contain no political message and are >merely a technically triggered reaction to the fact that Iraqi defences have >locked on to the planes is disingenuous. The aircraft that patrol the two >no-fly zones over Iraq are under political control and Washington and London >could easily reduce the number of flights. > >Britain and the United States should also take more seriously the questions >which the Iraqis have raised about the new inspectors. When the council >authorised the team, the aim was to find a quicker way of achieving >compliance and ending the international sanctions, which have dragged on for >almost 10 years. It is true that the sanctions have been eased but they are >still in force and doing serious harm to ordinary people, though very little >to the regime. Iraq wants to know whether there is a finite term in sight if >it cooperates with the inspectors or whether it is entering another tunnel >in which objections will constantly be raised. > >The American presidential election complicates the matter since neither >candidate wants to appear weak. But the Iraqi bogy has fortunately lost much >of its resonance in American politics and there is no reason why sensitive >diplomacy at the United Nations should suddenly explode into a campaign >issue. Rather than sending warplanes over Iraq the United States and Britain >should be sending signals to their UN missions to urge the secretary-general >to answer Iraq's legitimate questions. >Source: GUARDIAN 21/08/2000 P21 > > >PAKISTAN-IRAQ TRADE VIA IRAN SUGGESTED. >KARACHI, Aug 21, Asia Pulse - The acting president ofFederation of the >Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry(FPCCI), Sardar Raza Mohammed >Barrech, has called upon thegovernment to look into the possibility of trade >with Iraqthrough land route via Iran. > >The suggestion was made by the acting president during ameeting with the >ambassador of Iraq, Abdul Karim Aswad, at theFederation House. The Iraqi >ambassador suggested to the actingpresident FPCCI to invite an Iraqi >business delegation to visitPakistan to explore the possibilities of trade >cooperation. >He also sought FPCCI's cooperation in encouragingparticipation of Pakistani >companies in the BaghdadInternational Fair to be held in November this year. >(PPI). >(c) 2000 Asia Pulse Pte Limited >Source: ASIA PULSE 21/08/2000 > > >German plane lands in Baghdad to evacuate patient. > >A small, two-engine German LG-35 ambulance plane landed at Baghdad's newly >reopened Saddam International Airport on Sunday to evacuate a Swedish >patient out of Iraq, according to its pilot. > >Norbert Fleischmann told reporters at the airport he was in Baghdad "to >carry a Swedish sick man for treatment outside Iraq." He said he was >accompanied by three men from Turkey, but did not give their nationalities. > >Fleischmann said his German air rescue firm had sent him on a humanitarian >mission. >"I flew through Turkish airspace into Iraq, and I faced no harassment in the >air," he added. > >He was referring to flying through Iraq's northern no-fly zone, which U.S. >and British warplanes patrol daily. The zone, north of the 36th parallel, >was imposed by the U.S.-led alliance following the Gulf War to allegedly >protect Iraqi Kurds against possible government attacks. > >Asked whether he had obtained the U.N. Iraq sanctions committee's approval >for the flight, Fleischmann only said, "I had no problem in flying into >Iraq." > >He said he would fly out of the country later Sunday for Germany via Turkey. >On Saturday, a chartered Russian Ilyushin plane on a humanitarian mission >landed at the airport carrying a 25-member official delegation led by >Russia's Emergencies Vice Minister Rouslan Tsalikov. The landing apparently >violated a U.N. commercial air embargo on the country. > >The Russian plane is also to take off from the airport Sunday for Moscow, >according to local officials. >The airport had been closed since the outbreak of the Gulf War on the night >of Jan. 16-17, 1991, but was officially reopened Thursday with the arrival >of a domestic flight from western Iraq. >A French firm built the facility in 1982. It was designed to handle 7.5 >million passengers annually. >(c) 2000 KYODO NEWS. > > >Russian plane lands at Baghdad airport, breaks embargo. >A plane carrying a Russian government delegation landed at Saddam >International Airport on Saturday, becoming the first foreign civilian >aircraft to arrive at the airport, which was reopened Thursday for the first >time in 10 years. >Rouslan Tsalikov, Russia's vice minister for emergencies, who heads the >delegation, told reporters upon arrival that Moscow had not obtained U.N. >approval for the Yak-42 plane to land in Baghdad. > >The sanctions imposed by the United Nations against Iraq for its invasion >into Kuwait in August 1990 ban civilian flights between Iraq and foreign >countries. > >Tsalikov said Russia had only informed the U.N. Sanctions Committee about >the flight, implying that Moscow did not ask for the committee's approval. > >Tsalikov said his visit is of a "mere humanitarian nature" as his ministry >officials visit any country that faces catastrophes. >He said Russia and Iraq agreed on the trip of the Russian delegation, when >Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz visited Moscow in July. > >Asked whether his aircraft had faced any problems or threats by U.S. and >British warplanes on daily reconnaissance flights over northern and southern >Iraq, he said, "We have crossed international airspace without facing any >trouble, till we landed at the Saddam International airport this afternoon." >(c) 2000 KYODO NEWS. > > >Iraq, Russia sign agreement on rescue-work. >Iraqi and Russian officials signed an agreement in Baghdad on Sunday on >cooperating to deal with emergencies, Iraqi radio reported. > >The agreement was signed by visiting Russian First Deputy Emergencies >Minister Ruslan Tsalikov and Iraq's Interior Ministry Under-Secretary Sa'dun >Alwan al-Muslih. > >Under the agreement, information and technical expertise will be exchanged >in an effort to prevent and combat catastrophes. The agreement also applies >to civil defence, joint research projects and preparation of a joint >database on catastrophes in the two countries, the radio said. > >At the meeting, Tsalikov was quoted as saying Russia continued to reject the >UN sanctions imposed on Iraq. > >Source: Republic of Iraq Radio, Baghdad, in Arabic 20 Aug 00. > > >Russia to train personnel for Iraqi civil defence. >Text of report in English by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS > >Baghdad, 20th August: Russian Deputy Minister for Civil Defence and >Emergencies Ruslan Tsalikov, currently on a working visit to Baghdad, had >negotiations with the Iraqi Interior Ministry on Sunday [20th August]. > >The negotiations resulted in signing of a memorandum of intent in the sphere >of the disaster prevention and civil defence. The memorandum will enable the >sides to exchange information, experts and specialists and to train >personnel for the Iraqi civil defence service. > >The document also stipulates the opening of a humanitarian de-mining centre >in Iraq. Baghdad says that there are about 450,000 dud missiles and bombs, >made in the US, on its territory. > >Source: ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, in English 1914 gmt 20 Aug 00. > > >Russian deputy minister leaves Baghdad aboard Russian plane. >Text of report by Iraqi radio on 20th August > >Interior Minister Muhammad Zimam Abd-al-Razzaq met today with Ruslan >Tsalikov, Russian deputy minister for emergency situations, and his >accompanying delegation. The Iraqi minister stressed that the visit of the >Russian delegation to Iraq shows the extent of developing relations between >the two friendly countries in all areas. The two sides discussed ways of >enhancing cooperation between Iraq and Russia to serve the interests of the >two friendly peoples. The meeting was attended by Sa'dun Alwan al-Muslih, >under secretary of the Interior Ministry, and a number of officials at the >Ministry. > >Ruslan Tsalikov and his delegation left for Russia after a two-day visit to >Iraq. He left aboard the Russian plane, which carried the Russian delegation >to Baghdad. At a news conference at Saddam International Airport, Tsalikov >praised the strong relations between Russia and Iraq. He stressed the >importance of developing these relations in all fields. He noted the desire >of Russia, leadership and people, to enhance these relations to serve the >mutual interests of the two friendly peoples. He also expressed Russia's >rejection of the continuation of the blockade. He said that the Russian >flight to Iraq reflects the Russian stand, which rejects the air embargo. > >The Russian plane is the first to land at Saddam International Airport after >its inauguration on 17th August. > >Source: Republic of Iraq Radio, Baghdad, in Arabic 1800 gmt 20 Aug 00. > > >Assembly Speaker urges Jordan to operate flights to Iraq. >Text of report by Iraqi radio on 20th August > >Dr Sa'dun Hammadi, Speaker of the National Assembly, today received a >message from Abd-al-Hadi al-Majali, Speaker of the Jordanian House of >Representatives. The message was delivered by Dr Ahmad Bushnaq, member of >the Jordanian House of Representatives and deputy secretary-general of the >National Constitutional Party, during his meeting with Sa'dun Hammadi today. > _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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