Iraq: We do not seek to create a crisis with the UN

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf expressed yesterday expressed his country's satisfaction toward the resolutions of the Non-Aligned Movement expressing solidarity with Iraqi concerns, demanding to lift the sanctions imposed on his country and calling for unified stand among the NAM countries to help Iraq.

Meanwhile the movement condemned the Turkish military operations inside northern Iraq, and the air embargo imposed upon northern and southern Iraq.

Returning from South Africa to Baghdad, the minister told reporters that the current UN-Iraq outstanding issues do not constitute a crisis between his country and the UN, but are merely the continuous American - British attempts to cause a crisis with Iraq from to time to time.

He said the hostile polices of Washington and London resort to creating problems for Iraq, yet, "We are far away from creating any crisis."