Mandela, Gorbachev, Dalai Lama urge world leaders to help the Iraqi people

35 international personalities and organizations urged yesterday world leaders to move to help the Iraqi people and lift the sanctions imposed on it since August of year 1990.

This came in an open message that was signed by these personalities and organizations and addressed to heads of the member states in the United Nations and the UN Security Council.

The message was signed by important personalities among which are Nelson Mandela, former president of south Africa; Michael Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader; Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian president; and the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet.

Some international organizations also signed the message, among which are the International Committee of the Red Cross and the International Labor Organization, as well as Amnesty International.