GENEVA, 31 August (UN Information Service) --
MOHAMMED AL-DOURI (Iraq) said it had not been his intention to make a statement but he found himself forced to do so in view of the attack that Iraq had
been subjected to by the representative of a State which was trying to justify certain measures and to prejudice the reputation of Iraq. The Conference was the sole forum for multilateral negotiations on disarmament aimed at eliminating weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons. Such weapons provoked terror and threat to the future of mankind. The State whose representative spoke was considered by all to be one of the greatest threats to international peace and security.
Mr. Al-Douri said that the representative of that State had tried to blacken the reputation of Iraq, a country which had been subjected to the worst disarmament operations over the last 10 years, and whose people had been oppressed and prejudiced against as a result of the selective policies of well-known States which were well-known permanent members of the Security Council. The Conference should not be subjected to the influences and pressures which other United Nations bodies suffered from. The representative of that country had spoken as a cover-up to justify the non-accession of his country to several nuclear disarmament instruments. That country possessed hundreds of nuclear bombs which threatened not just the region but the whole world. That country also refused the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning the Syrian Golan Heights in order to justify its colonial presence there.
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