No more cooperation, Iraq tells UN

BAGHDAD, SEPT 17: The Iraqi leadership today broke off all cooperation with UN arms experts and called on the Security Council to cancel ...

BAGHDAD, SEPT 17: The Iraqi leadership today broke off all cooperation with UN arms experts and called on the Security Council to cancel a resolution scrapping all reviews of the eight-year sanctions.

The decision follows a recommendation by Iraq’s parliament on Monday for a total break in relations with the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) for disarmament unless the two-monthly sanction reviews are restored.

“The Iraqi leadership believes that the national assembly’s (parliament) recommendation go in the right direction and reflect the unhappiness of the Iraqi people,” said a statement from the revolutionary command council, quoted by the official INA news agency.

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The sanctions, imposed after Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, cannot be lifted until UNSCOM certifies that Baghdad no longer has weapons of mass destruction.

The Security Council decided on September 9 to cancel two-monthly reviews of the sanctions to punish Iraq for its August 5 decision to suspend cooperation with inspectors from theUNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency, but to allow arms monitoring to continue.

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