'INA' reports Iraq's parliament calls on UN
Secretary-Gen. Annan to discuss with UN agencies the effect of 10 years
of sanctions on Iraq. The agency, quoting a letter by parliamentary
speaker Saadoun Hammadi, says such a meeting would give the UN a
detailed picture of the humanitarian effects of the sanctions. According
to the agency, Hammadi's letter reiterated a request made
originally on June 26. (Iraq is under stringent UN sanctions imposed
after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. In June, the UN Security Council
voted to extend for 6 months a UN humanitarian program that allows Iraq
to sell oil to buy food other humanitarian goods. But the continuation
of sanction has been criticised within the UN The last 2 UN humanitarian
coordinators for Iraq, Hans Von Sponeck of Germany and Dennis Halliday
of Ireland, both resigned after highlighting the humanitarian toll of
the sanctions on civilians.)
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