Iraq and the UN chief

The Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz on Tuesday in Baghdad called on the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to oppose the attempts made to use the humanitarian program as a cover to perpetuate the British- American political projects against Iraq.

In a message to Annan, handed over to Annan by Iraq's representative at the UN, Aziz added that Iraq and the UN secretary general are the two sides which are responsible for implementing the program, in line with a memorandum of understanding, noting the need of asserting this fact because there are American and British attempts which are made to violate this memorandum.

Aziz expressed his wonder over the statements made by the UN chief at the UN headquarters on June 4th in which he said that the UN Security Council is reviewing the "oil for food" program.

He explained that Iraq refused to deal with the new decision adopted by the UN Security Council to extend the humanitarian program for one month instead of 9 months because it came with two contradictory decisions: to extend working according to the memorandum of understanding for one month and one article notes the intention of the UN Security Council to introduce fundamental changes in the concept of the program and its work mechanism.

Aziz stressed that Iraq will refuse to deal with any comming decision of the same kind and will not react to any decision to be released by the UN Security Council including attitudes of the American- British project, regardless the identity of the introducer of a project as such.