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19 November 1998

• Secretary Cohen and UK Secretary of State for Defense George Robertson News Briefing Thursday, November 19, 1998 -- The message is that Saddam is the person who has brought about the problems that the Iraqi people face today. The sanctions that remain in place are there because he refuses to comply with the ceasefire resolution. The miseries that he has created in certain areas such as the lack of food or the lack of medicine has not been caused by the international community or the UN, but by Saddam directly refusing to take the food and the medicines that he is perfectly entitled to import out with the sanctions regime.
• TRANSCRIPT: COHEN/ROBERTSON PRESS CONFERENCE 19 November 1998 -- The message is that Saddam is the person who has brought about the problems that the Iraqi people face today. The sanctions that remain in place are there because he refuses to comply with the ceasefire resolution.
• ANOTHER CONFRONTATION WITH IRAQ ENDS Voice of America 19 November 1998 -- HOW TO DEAL WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN AND HIS APPARENTLY PERSISTENT DRIVE TO OBTAIN BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL AND ATOMIC WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?
• U-N / IRAQ Voice of America 19 November 1998 -- RICHARD BUTLER SAYS THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IS FOR INSPECTORS TO CHECK ALL THE MONITORING SYSTEMS THEY LEFT BEHIND WHEN THEY WERE ORDERED OUT OF IRAQ MORE THAN A WEEK AGO.
• The US and the Iraqi Opposition Iraq News 19 November 1998 -- At US initiative, yesterday, Iraqi National Congress head, Ahmad Chalabi, met Martin Indyk, Asst Sec State for NEA. An INC press release quoted Chalabi as saying, "We had a positive and constructive meeting today."