Tracking Number: 236714
Title: "UN Extends Sanctions on Iraq for 60 Days." The UN Security Council decided July 27 that the wide-ranging sanctions it imposed against Iraq during the Persian Gulf war
should remain in place for another 60 days. (920728)
Translated Title: Les Nations unies prorogent les sanctions contre l Irak. (920728)
Author: AITA, JUDY (USIA STAFF WRITER)
Date:
19920728
Text:
U.N. EXTENDS SANCTIONS ON IRAQ FOR 60 DAYS
(Review of Iraqi actions bring poor report) (340) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent United Nations -- The U.N. Security Council decided July 27 that the wide-ranging sanctions it imposed against Iraq during the Persian Gulf war should remain in place for another 60 days.
The council's periodic review of the sanctions regime was announced after Baghdad agreed to let a U.N. weapons inspection team enter the Ministry of Agriculture building. The U.N.-negotiated solution, which ended a two-week standoff, did nothing to end Iraq's international isolation.
After a private meeting, Council President Ambassador Jose Luis Jesus of Cape Verde told journalists that "there was no agreement that the necessary conditions existed for a modification" of the sanctions regime.
In addition to the ministry standoff, he said, "there are a number of issues where there are still stalled situations."
Diplomats have cited numerous other problems with Iraq, including its refusal to destroy weapons of mass destruction as called for in the cease-fire agreement, its failure to turn over all its information on weapons programs and sites, and its refusal to accept the U.N. plan for long-term monitoring.
Other factors considered by the council were Iraq's failure to participate in the work of the Boundary Commission, its refusal to renew the "memorandum of understanding" on the humanitarian relief operation in northern Iraq, its lack of cooperation on Kuwait's prisoners of war and others missing since the occupation, its failure to return Kuwaiti goods and other items taken during the occupation, and its use of fixed-wing aircraft in southern Iraq.
Jesus said "we analyzed the situation to see if some positive steps have been taken that would prompt the council to lift partially or totally the sanctions. And the analysis did not warrant the change in the regime....nothing has been done (by Iraq) that could influence that position."
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File Identification: 07/28/92, PO-202; 07/28/92, AE-206; 07/28/92, AR-209; 07/28/92, EU-207; 07/28/92, NE-205; 07/29/92, AF-305; 07/29/92, NA-306
Product Name: Wireless File
Product
Code: WF
Languages: French; Arabic
Keywords: SANCTIONS; IRAQ/Economic & Social; IRAQ/Defense & Military; ARMISTICE; PERSIAN GULF WAR; UNITED NATIONS-SECURITY COUNCIL; LUIS JESUS, JOSE;
INSPECTIONS; ARMS CONTROL VERIFICATION
Thematic Codes: 1NE; 1UN; 1AC
Target Areas: AF; AR; EU; NE
PDQ Text Link: 236714; 236948
USIA Notes: *92072802.POL
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