>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >12/06/00-The Independent Bangladesh > >PHA calls for end to sanctions on Cuba, Iraq >by Staff Reporter > >Cuban and Iraqi delegations addressing the second day session of the >People's Health Assembly (PHA) 2000 being held at Savar yesterday called >for an immediate lifting of sanctions against their countries. >Former director general of the World Health Organisation Halfdan Mahler >said no other country in the world is as successful as Cuba in achieving the >goal for Health for All". > >David Woodward, an economist, also cited Cuba as an example of a country >which has taken people's welfare as a top priority. > >Salma Jabu, a delegate from the northern territories of Iraq also called >for an end to the US sanctions on Iraq after the Gulf War in 1991 which she >said had resulted in massive destruction of infrastructure and affected >health >care seriously. > >Bangladesh Water Resources Minister Abdur Razzak said millions of people >around the world are still deprived of basic health care. Unfortunately >the Alma Ata declaration of 1978 of "Health for All" had turned out to be a >mirage. > >The South African delegate compared the phenomenon of globalisation to >that of slavery and said that it had taken 300 years to end the slave trade >because many African leaders had collaborated with colonialists. He said >similarly in the contemporary world third world leaders were >collaborating >with international institutions to rob their own people of their >resources. > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
