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UN Security Council: We have a solution to the war of frustration
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan summed up the sentiment and conclusion of the UN Security Council this evening saying "The international community has unanimously expressed the hope for a satisfactory diplomatic solution to the present crisis. It appears that this outcome has now been achieved."
Iraq, Politics, 11/15/1998

Clinton: Iraq has backed down
The US said that Iraq has met its demands to let the UN Special Commission team in charge of disarming Iraq (UNSCOM) do its work, with the US President Bill Clinton today saying "Iraq has backed down, but that's not enough, now Iraq must live up to its obligations"
Iraq, Politics, 11/15/1998

US: Iraqi responce is unacceptable
US National Security Advisor Sandy Berger said that the Iraqi response is "neither unequivocal, nor unconditional, it is unacceptable."
Iraq, Politics, 11/14/1998

Iraqis demonstrate against US threats
Iraq, Politics, 11/14/1998

Saudi Arabia: no facilities for the Americans
A Saudi official source said today in Riyadh that Saudi Arabia will give no military facilitation for the American troops if they attack Iraq, SANA reported.
Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 11/14/1998

Baghdad ready to cooperate with Annan to settle the crisis
Albright reiterated US objectives from such a strike saying "if we were to use force, it would be to degrade his ability to develop and deliver weapons of mass destruction and to degrade his ability to threaten his neighbors."
Iraq, Politics, 11/13/1998

Morocco calls for averting escalation in UN-Iraq crisis
Khalid Alioua, spokesman of the Moroccan government noted that there is "some delay" in lifting the eight-year long embargo against Iraq and deplored the disaster situation facing the Iraqi people.
Morocco-Iraq, Politics, 11/13/1998

Annan: Events may be running away from us
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who met late today with the UN Security Council decided to send Iraq a letter asking it to cooperate.
Iraq, Politics, 11/13/1998

Iraq blames the US, the US blames Iraq
Aziz said he would consider mediation by the UN Chief Kofi Annan. But Iraq was insistent that it is not changing its mind unless the "US is ready to change course" to which the US today replied through White House Spokesman Joe Lockhart saying that "he (Saddam) needs to reverse course."
Iraq, Politics, 11/12/1998

Iraq refuses to give up its decision in halting cooperation with UNSCOM
Iraq, Politics, 11/11/1998

Cohen spoke of three attack plans against Iraq
The plans speak of the start of intensive air bombardment of the "Presidential guards positions" for a period of four days to be followed by a list of requests to be submitted to the Iraqi leadership
Iraq, Politics, 11/11/1998

Iraq for a political solution, Clinton is prepared to act
Iraqi foreign minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf has called for finding out a political solution for the dispute with UNSCOM.
Iraq-USA, Politics, 11/11/1998

Egypt for reconsidering UNSCOM work
Egypt's foreign minister Amr Moussa has asserted the need of reconsidering the work carried out by UNSCOM in Iraq.
Egypt-Iraq, Politics, 11/11/1998

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

A railway line between Jordan and Iraq
Jordan-Iraq, Economics, 11/11/1998

UNSCOM's personnel to leave Baghdad
A diplomatic source in Baghdad said on Wednesday that UNSCOM received instructions from New York to evacuate all its staff working in Baghdad.
Iraq, Politics, 11/11/1998

AL condemns Turkish new incursion in Northern Iraq
The Arab league (AL) general secretariat has called upon the Turkish government to withdraw its troops from North Iraq and to stop such actions
Iraq, Politics, 11/11/1998

New Turkish invasion into Iraq
On Monday Baghdad denounced the new Turkish invasion of North Iraq where Turkish troops continue their attacks against 400-500 of the Turkish Workers Party who fled from Syria last month and stationed in the area.
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 11/10/1998

Iraq is ready to make a deal to avoid military act
Ireland's former Premier Albert Reynolds expressed conviction that Iraq is ready to reach a settlement so as to avoid threats of military acts following the recent crisis with UNSCOM team.
Iraq, Politics, 11/10/1998

Some 11 armed Kurds killed by Turkish forces in Northern Iraq
Some 11 Kurdish armed men were killed on Sunday in Southern east Turkey in operations carried out by the Turkish security forces inside the Iraqi territories.
Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 11/10/1998

Brittain: we can inflict great damages on the Iraqi military infrastructure
Iraq-UK, Politics, 11/10/1998

First UAE ship anchors at Iraqi Um Qaser port since 1990
United Arab Emirates-Iraq, Politics, 11/10/1998

Egyptian-Iraqi cooperation in fields of housing and Utilities
The Egyptian Minister of Housing and Utilities Mohammed Ibrahim Soliman has endorsed with the Iraqi Minister of Housing Maani Abd Allah Sarsem an agreement for enhancing cooperation in fields of housing, utilities, new cities and infrastructures projects.
Egypt-Iraq, Economics, 11/9/1998

UN envoy in Iraq, British threats against Iraq
Iraq, Politics, 11/9/1998


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