Red Cross warns of negative effects of sanctions against Iraq

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned of an accumulation of negative effects from the system of sanctions imposed on Iraq and its serious effects on the country.

A report issued by the committee recently-- parts of which were published in Cairo-- said Iraq would need a long time to rehabilitate the basic sectors to become like it used to be before 1990.

The report added that the severe shortage in food caused harm to a whole generation of Iraqi children and that nearly 4 million persons are suffering from malnutrition, including 2.4 million children under the age of 5 and 600 pregnant women, as well as thousands of aged people.