New Zealand and Iraq

New Zealand prime minister Mrs. Helen Clark said on Monday that her country will not send an army office to Kuwait instead of the officer who was killed in the bomb explosion incident in the joint exercises between the Kuwaiti and American forces last week, noting that her country supports the amendment of sanctions imposed on Iraq.

News reports quoted Clark as saying to the press that her country backs the amendment of the sanctions imposed on Iraq. She added that this decision by the government of New Zealand is in line with the accelerated calls in the world to amend the sanctions imposed by the UN on Iraq.

She continued that the aim behind amending the sanctions is to alleviate the sufferings of the Iraqi people who underwent a difficult time in the past decade.