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US threats against worldwide diplomatic drive for emergency session of the UN General Assembly
The US has launched a worldwide diplomatic drive to head off the calling of an emergency session of the UN General Assembly to condemn the US-led war on Iraq, diplomats said yesterday.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/22/2003
Chirac: US and UK violated international law
The French President Jacque Chirac yesterday in Brussels that the US and Britain have violated international law by declaring war against Iraq without the consent of the United Nations (UN).
Iraq-France, Politics, 3/22/2003
Washington Post: Pope says no legal or moral ground for war on Iraq
"When war, as in these days in Iraq, threatens the fate of humanity, it is ever more urgent to proclaim, with a strong and decisive voice, that only peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united society," John Paul said. "Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men."
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/22/2003
Russian, French, German reject expelling Iraqi diplomats
The spokesman for the French foreign ministry on Friday announced that Paris had refused an American request to expel Iraqi diplomats from France.
Iraq-Regional, Politics, 3/22/2003
Arab anger against US war on Iraq
The Moroccan national committee supporting Iraq, an association comprising several political parties and trade unions, branded the US-led war against Iraq "a serious precedent in international relations and a blatant despise of the international community." The committee said in a statement, the attack, conducted in total violation of the UN charter, is a threat to the world security, peace and stability.
Regional-Iraq, Politics, 3/22/2003
Moroccan press fearful of aftermath of US adventurism
"In what state will this dangerous precedent leave the world? What role will international law still have in the community of nations? And what weight will a discredited and ridiculed UNO still have?"
Morocco-Iraq, Politics, 3/22/2003
Lahoud: results of aggression will be reflected on the world as a whole
Iraq-Lebanon, Politics, 3/22/2003
Jordan: No request from Washington to close Iraqi embassy
The Jordanian FM said that these news are "futile." He added that these "news are the same as the one preceded it on Thursday on the deployment of the American army in Iraq as from the Jordanian territories which is also baseless news."
Jordan-USA, Politics, 3/22/2003
US argues it has UN legal right to attack Iraq
In an interview with the Cairo Arabic Daily Al-Ahram, published on Friday, US Vice President Dick Cheney said he does not agree with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's statement in which he said that a war without a UN Security Council resolution violates the UN Charter.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/22/2003
Maroc-Hebdo: Spanish official calls for giving chance to new UN sahara settlement plan
President of the autonomous government of Andalusia (Southern Spain), Manuel Chaves, told a Moroccan weekly the latest Sahara settlement plan, crafted by the UN secretary general's personal envoy for the Sahara, has to be given a chance.
Morocco-Spain, Politics, 3/22/2003
Rumsfeld, Myers briefings on the war against Iraq
Iraq-USA, Military, 3/22/2003
Kurds on Turkish troops crossing Iraq
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 3/22/2003
15 Palestinians arrested; Palestinians attack Ghoushe katif
The Israeli occupation forces yesterday continued aggression against the Palestinians and incurred in several area in the West Bank and Gaza and arrested more than 15 Palestinians on charges of resisting the occupation.
Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/22/2003
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Foreign Minister, Farouk al-Shara received yesterday a phone call from the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa. Talks during the phone dealt with the latest developments of the American war on Iraq and "the ways for Arabs to put an end to this aggression." They stressed the necessity for adherence to Arab and international resolutions which assert that what happens in Iraq is outside of the International legitimacy.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in a statement said "Perhaps if we had persevered a little longer, Iraq could yet have been disarmed peacefully, or - if not - the world could have taken action to solve this problem by a collective decision, endowing it with greater legitimacy, and therefore commanding wider support, than is now the case."
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The Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the Iraqi issue constitutes a source of instability in other parts of the world and the military operation against Iraq implies unpredicted consequences.
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An explosive went off on Thursday evening in a building in al-Ta'meir area, Sidon quarters and it resulted in the killing the Lebanese citizen Ali Hassan Eid and wounding 14 citizens of the occupants of the building.
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