Some 1.35 million Iraqi children died due to the sanctions
Iraq, Politics, 9/8/2000

The sanctions imposed on Iraq has resulted in the death of 1.35 million Iraqi children while the number of women's deaths after delivery increased as well as number of handicapped- births.

This is in line with the Iraqi memorandum studied by the executive bureau of the council of the Arab ministers of social affairs on Wednesday in Cairo. By its turn, the council decided to submit a memorandum to lift the sanctions imposed on the Iraqi people to the next session of the council to be held in November.

The Assistant secretary general of the Arab League for social affairs Daw Sweidan said that the executive bureau recommended in its decisions released on Thursday on the importance of lifting the sufferings from the Iraqi people and alleviating the social consequences inflected on them.

He added that the Bureau agreed to allocate US $ 50,000 for Iraq as a technical aid to conduct a field research on margined social strata, especially the disabled.

He made it clear that the bureau also agreed to allocate the same amount of technical aids to each of Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan in order to support certain social projects there.

The executive bureau also decided September 28 to be the Arab women's day, the day in which the Arab women committee at the Arab League was established in 1971 and the year 2002 was set as the year for the Arab women.

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