Lifting oil embargo, Iraq's least demand to resume cooperation with UNSCOM
Iraq, Politics, 11/11/1998

Iraqi minister of Trade Muhammad Mahdi Saleh has announced that "the least Iraq would accept to resume cooperation with UNSCOM experts is to lift the oil embargo imposed against it since 8 years."

In statements to the press yesterday the Iraqi minister added "the minimum is to implement article 22 of UN Security Council resolution 687" which calls for removal of the oil sale embargo and for "UNSCOM to return back with a composition free of spying" a reference to Iraqi allegation against the organization as being an agency that is collecting sensitive information on Iraq and sharing it with countries such as Israel.

He added that Iraq does not fear a military strike because the American atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the second world war killed 300,000 persons whereas the sanctions imposed on Iraq killed five folds of this number." He asserted if there were a program to lift the sanctions imposed on Iraq at a set time and within a short period of time with UNSCOM avoiding to carry out irresponsible acts the crisis would have been peacefully solved.

Meantime, Foreign journalists, pressmen and correspondents of TV stations arrived in Baghdad to cover events of the current crisis between Iraq and the UN in light of US threats to have a military strike against Iraq. It is expected within the few coming days that teams of American TV channels and French, German, British and Japanese TV teams to arrive for the same purpose.

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