Belarus president calls for lifting sanctions imposed on Iraq
Iraq-UK, Politics, 3/21/2002

The Russian President Alexander Lukashenko has called for canceling the sanctions imposed on Iraq.

The Russian daily Izvestia said on Wednesday that President Lukashinko said on Tuesday during his meeting with an Iraqi delegation chaired by the deputy premier and minister of finance Hikmat al-Azouzi that the sanctions inflict great damage in the Israeli people.

The Belarus president also stressed deliberate rejection to any military pressure on Iraq.

On the other hand, members of the British house of commons Tom Daliel stressed the increasing British parliamentary opposition to striking Iraq. He said that this matter threatens the political future of the British Prime minister Tony Blair.

Daliel, who is considered the oldest member at the British house of common said in statements to the British press issued on Tuesday that opposition started to increase by various parliamentary circles towards the policy of the British government towards the Middle East and Iraq

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