Iraq has met its obligations towards the UN
Iraq-USA, Politics, 4/22/2002

"Iraq has called to establish a group for peace-loving countries that believe truly in the principles of the UN so as to correct the current faults in the UN agencies driven by the US hegemony, to assure democracy in the international relations and respect sovereignty and human rights," said Iraq

Sadoun Hamadi, Speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly, said "Iraq has implemented all its obligations towards the Security Council resolutions, as admitted by the Special Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency and their admission that no prohibited arms were discovered." adding "In spite of this the US evil administration is threatening to enlarge its aggression against Iraq because of its refusal of the US Zionist hegemony on oil riches in the Arab lands." INA reported yesterday.

He added, "Iraq implemented all relevant Security Council resolutions. UNSCOM has sent 264 inspection groups that have inspected 2558 sites all over Iraq, and put 286 sites under permanent observation with cameras and sophisticated remote sensing equipment." Since 1994, all UNSCOM and IAEA reports have been unanimously reporting that they found no breach or hidden weapons. Head of UNSCOM Mr. Ekeus, mentioned in his final report to UNSCOM on April 1997 as follows, "According to the work accomplished for six years, We accomplished about 95% of our work; it's unreasonable not to accomplish the remaining 5%." Dr. Hammadi elaborated as saying, "UNSCOM returned in 1998 led by Butler. It reported that it made 427 inspection, only five were hindered. UNSCOM's demands were not in accordance with UNSC resolutions." He stressed that UNSCOM was performing spying missions against Iraq as was admitted by the Secretary General in an interview with BBC on June 27th 1999.

He added "When sanctions policies lead to a genocide, they contradict the UN Charter, and Human Rights principles, and this is exactly what happened in Iraq." He referred to the violations of the UN Charter as saying, "most discussions at the Security Council are carried on among the permanent members only without the other members and the concerned parties. While section 31 of the Charter states to include the concerned party in discussions. As for Chapter 6 of the Charter that deals with solving disputes with peaceful means, it was completely ignored and they skipped directly to chapter 7. Even this chapter states in paragraphs 39, 40 and 41 to use peaceful means but this also was ignored." Sadoon Hammadi stressed the need to rectify the Security Council procedures by making them under judiciary control through giving the affected country the right to resort to International Court of Justice, INA said.

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