Iraq News by Laurie Mylroie
The central focus of Iraq News is the tension between the considerable, proscribed WMD capabilities that Iraq is holding on to and its increasing stridency that it has complied with UNSCR 687 and it is time to lift sanctions. If you wish to receive Iraq News by email, a service which includes full-text of news reports not archived here, send your request to Laurie Mylroie .
IRAQ NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1999 I. RAMADAN REJECTS UNSC PROPOSALS, RADIO MONTE CARLO, APR 14 II. RAMADAN REJECTS UNSC PROPOSALS, IRAQ RADIO, APR 14 As Radio Monte Carlo, today, explained, the UNSC is scheduled to present it reports, including on Iraqi disarmament, tomorrow. Today, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan rejected those proposals. I. RAMADAN REJECTS UNSC PROPOSALS Paris Radio Monte Carlo in Arabic 1100 GMT 14 Apr 99 [FBIS Translated Text] Three UN technical committees, formed to look into the tense relations between Iraq and the international organization, are scheduled to announce their findings tomorrow. Colleague Ahmad Sabri, our correspondent in Baghdad, asked Iraqi Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan what Iraq expects of these committees. He said: [Begin recording] [Ramadan] Our stand has been declared from the beginning. We are not interested in the formation of committees and their findings. We have said that we will not comply with anything not conducted in consultation with and approval by the Iraqi side. Therefore, nothing has been put forth yet and we have dealt with nothing, so we do not form a view on an issue to which we are not a party. [Sabri] Does Iraq have any new vision on the future relationship with the Security Council and is there reliance on some members of the Security Council on this issue? [Ramadan] There is no new vision. There is a firm stand that has been clearly made public. [Sabri] What is this stand? [Ramadan] The stand is obvious: unconditional lifting of the blockade without beating about the bush, and denouncing and halting the continuous aggression against Iraq. Any dialogue about views on the future must be unconditional and must involve formulas based on previous positions and taking the essence of Resolution 687 ... [sentence incomplete as heard] [end recording] II. RAMADAN REJECTS UNSC PROPOSALS Baghdad Republic of Iraq Radio Network in Arabic 1600 GMT 14 Apr 99 [FBIS Translated Text] Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan reiterated Iraq's stand that rejects the formation of the three committees by the UN Security Council regarding Iraq's banned weapons. He stressed that Iraq is not concerned with these committees, nor with the results they will yield, because it is not taking part in them. In a press statement during a visit to the first high-standard fair organized by the Ministry of Industry and Minerals today, Ramadan said: Iraq will not comply with anything on which its opinion is not regarded and this is Iraq's declared position. He reiterated Iraq's call for fully and unconditionally lifting the unjust embargo that has been in force for more than eight years and condemning the continued military assaults on it. He noted that Iraq believes that implementing the essence of Resolution 687, especially Paragraph 14, is the only way out of this crisis and that any dialogue that guarantees a future vision should be unconditional and with formulas based on logical contexts.
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