Tracking Number: 218943
Title: "Editorial: Full Compliance Demanded of Iraq." Just as the UN insisted on Iraq's complete and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait, it also insists on Iraq's full
compliance with the cease-fire terms and the other resolutions adopted in the aftermath of Iraq's defeat in the Persian Gulf war. (920311)
Translated Title: Editorial: se exige de Irak pleno acatamiento.; L`Irak doit se
conformer aux resolutions de l`ONU. (920311)
Date: 19920311
Text:
EDITORIAL: FULL COMPLIANCE DEMANDED OF IRAQ (480)
(Following is an editorial, broadcast by the Voice of America March 11, reflecting the views of the U.S. government.)
The United Nations Security Council is meeting once again to discuss Iraqi noncompliance with U.N. resolutions. Security Council members, including the United States, have stressed that they will accept nothing less than full Iraqi compliance with all U.N. resolutions, including the requirement that Iraq destroy all of its weapons of mass destruction.
It is more than a year now since Iraq agreed to a cease-fire in the war it started by brutally invading Kuwait. But after all that time, Iraq is still not in compliance with the cease-fire terms formally set forth in U.N. Security Council Resolution 687. These terms include the requirement that Iraq permit inspection and destruction of its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons facilities, as well as all ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 kilometers. The cease-fire resolution also requires Iraq to return all Kuwaiti citizens and other foreign nationals being held in Iraq, to compensate those who suffered loss and damages due to Iraq's aggression, to return all stolen property and to make restitution for the thousands of millions of dollars' worth of property it destroyed.
Not only is Iraq not in compliance with many of the provisions of the cease-fire resolution, but it is also violating several other U.N. resolutions, including Resolution 688, which demands an end to the repression of the Iraqi people. The U.N. Security Council adopted this resolution last April, after Iraqi troops crushed attempts by Iraqi citizens to free themselves from the grip of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship. In the north, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Kurds and others were forced from their homes into the mountains, where thousands of children, elderly people and others died from the effects of exposure, hunger or illness. In the south, large numbers of Iraqi Shiites and others fled their homes into the marshes, where they also died by the thousands.
Iraq would have the world believe that U.N. sanctions prevent it from importing food and medicine. Nothing could be further from the truth. Millions of Iraqis suffer because Saddam Hussein has established internal embargoes that deprive certain groups -- mainly in the north and south -- of these essentials. U.N. Security Council resolutions 706 and 712 would authorize the sale of more than a 1,000 million dollars' worth of Iraqi oil from Iraq's vast reserves to help finance emergency humanitarian relief under strict U.N. control.
Just as the United Nations insisted on Iraq's complete and unconditional withdrawal from Kuwait, it also insists on Iraq's full compliance with the cease-fire terms and the other U.N. resolutions adopted in the aftermath of Iraq's defeat in the Persian Gulf war.
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File Identification: 03/11/92, TX-301; 03/11/92, AE-309; 03/11/92, AR-307; 03/11/92, PX-387; 03/11/92, NE-305; 03/11/92, NA-308; 03/12/92, AS-409; 03/16/92, AF-105
Product Name: Wireless File; VOA Editorials
Product Code: WF; VO
Languages: Arabic; Spanish; French
Keywords: UNITED NATIONS-SECURITY COUNCIL; IRAQ/Defense & Military; INSPECTIONS; ARMISTICE; ARMS CONTROL VERIFICATION; NUCLEAR
WEAPONS; NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION; MILITARY TECHNOLOGY; MILITARY CAPABILITIES; PERSIAN GULF WAR
Document Type: EDI
Thematic Codes: 1UN; 1NE; 1AC
Target Areas: AF; AR; EA; NE
PDQ
Text Link: 218943; 219291; 219630
USIA Notes: *92031101.TXT
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