Some 8967 Iraqis died in May because of the sanctions

With Baghdad's new assertion it will not accept less than full and complete lift of the sanctions imposed on it since more than 11 years, the Iraqi ministry of health said that some 8967 Iraqis died in May because of this embargo.

The Iraqi minister of state for foreign affairs Naji Sabri announced in a press conference his country's categorical rejection to the British- American project pertinent to the new formula of the sanctions whatsoever amendments will be made on it because this formula aims at undermining Iraq and bring it back 79 years to the time of the colonialist control, and the days of the British mandate.

Sabri expected that the fate of the new decision, if taken, by the UN Security Council to be similar to the UN resolution 1284.

He accused Washington of embarking on a policy of bribing, misleading and terrifying in order to impose this new draft resolution.

On the impact of the sanctions on the Iraqi people, a statistics released by the Iraqi ministry of health said that 8967 Iraqis of both sexes died in May as a result of being effected by various diseases as a result of the shortage of food, medicines and other basic needs.