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Title:  "Bush Says Ready to Work with a New Regime in Iraq." President Bush's Operation Desert Storm anniversary statement. (920116)

Translated Title:   L`anniversaire de l`operation empete du desert.; EU presto a trabajar con nuevo regime en Irak, dice Bush. (920116)
Date:  19920116

Text:
*TXT404

01/16/92 HBUSH SAYS U.S. READY TO WORK WITH A NEW REGIME IN IRAQ SH(Text: Desert Storm anniversary statement) (510)

TWashington -- President Bush declared January 16 he is determined "to keep the pressure" on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein "until a new leadership comes to power in Iraq."

The United States "reiterates its pledge to the Iraqi people and the Iraqi military that we stand ready to work with a new regime," Bush said in an anniversary statement on Operation Desert Storm, the allied military offensive launched January 16, 1991, to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.

Following is the text of the president's statement:

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One year ago tonight I spoke to the American people at the moment an international coalition acting under U.N. authority went to war to end Saddam Hussein's brutal occupation of Kuwait. We can all take pride in the results of that effort -- Kuwait is liberated and the legitimate government restored, the fires set by Saddam's retreating army are extinguished, the flow of oil from the Gulf is secure from political and economic blackmail, much of Iraq's arsenal is destroyed and what remains is now under international supervision, and the United Nations has been greatly strengthened.

The determination and strength demonstrated by the United States and its coalition partners has had lasting dividends throughout the region. A critical region of the world vital to its economic well being is secure. Thanks in large part to our efforts, direct peace talks between Arabs and Israelis are underway for the first time, multilateral negotiations on regional arms control have begun, and America's hostages in Lebanon are home.

The coalition fought a limited war for a limited but vitally important purpose. It prevailed. Saddam's Iraq is weak and isolated, unable to impose its extremist policies on the region or the peace process. Nevertheless, the American people and I remain determined to keep the pressure on Saddam until a new leadership comes to power in Iraq. As was the case from the outset, our quarrel is not with the people of Iraq but with the dictator whose misrule has caused terrible suffering throughout the Middle East. We will maintain U.N. sanctions and keep Saddam's regime isolated, a pariah among nations. We will work to ensure adequate food and medicine reach the Iraqi people under international supervision while denying Saddam the means to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction.

We salute the efforts of thousands of brave Iraqis who are resisting Saddam's rule both inside and outside of Iraq. The United States reiterates its pledge to the Iraqi people and the Iraqi military that we stand ready to work with a new regime. A new leadership in Baghdad that accepts the U.N. resolutions and is ready to live at peace with its neighbors and its own people will find a partner in the United States, one willing to seek to lift economic sanctions and help restore Iraq to its rightful place in the family of nations.

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File Identification:  01/16/92, TX-404; 01/16/92, EP-406; 01/16/92, EU-405; 01/16/92, NE-410; 01/16/92, NA-402; 01/17/92, AE-510; 01/17/92, AR-505; 01/17/92, AF-506; 01/17/92, AS-502
Product Name:  Wireless File
Product Code:  WF
Languages:  Arabic; French; Spanish
Keywords:  OPERATION DESERT STORM; COMMEMORATIONS; BUSH, GEORGE/SPEAKER; IRAQ-US RELATIONS
Document Type:  TXT
Thematic Codes:  1NE
Target Areas:  EA; EU; NE
PDQ Text Link:  209746; 209949; 210001