Great changes for Iraqi ambassadors
Iraq-UN, Politics, 6/11/1998

Richard Butler, the head of the United Nations inspection committee for weapons of mass destruction affiliated, arrived in Iraq today to continue inspection measurers.

Meanwhile, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz accused the U.S.A. and Britain of continuing the U.N. economic sanctions and said that they have plans to continue this operation that caused in the death of more than 1.5 million citizens, most of them children.

Meanwhile, Iraq has appointed 10 ambassadors in important posts abroad which is the first major change to the ambassadors since the sanctions were imposed after the Gulf War. Iraq recalled the 10 ambassadors from their posts yesterday. Iraq is currently changing the ambassadors regularly every 4 years.

One of the most prominent figures who was dismissed from his post were Berzran El-Tukrini, the half-brother of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein who was Iraq's deputy at the UN in Geneva, Nabil Negm, the Iraqi deputy at the Arab League, and ambassador Fawzi El-Lois the Iraqi ambassador in Jordan.

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