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Lifting Iraq sanctions is urged
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/05/09 11:23  Shanghai Daily

  The United States will urge the UN Security Council this week to lift sanctions on Iraq immediately and phase out the oil-for-food aid program over the next four months, US diplomats said. But the proposal already faces opposition from Russia and France.

  The resolution would also create an international advisory board - including UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund - to audit how income from Iraq's oil industry is spent and ensure it is being used to benefit the Iraqi people, the council diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

  In addition, Annan will be asked to appoint a special coordinator for Iraq to be based in Baghdad who would oversee UN involvement in humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and building a new, democratic government, the diplomats said.

  Speculation on possible coordinators was intense and included Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

  US President George W. Bush, meanwhile, ordered US sanctions against Iraq lifted on Wednesday, allowing US humanitarian aid and remittances to flow//into//Iraq.

  US Secretary of State Colin Powell, calling for an end to the divisive diplomatic battles that erupted before the war, said the new resolution "will unite the international community ... (and) help the people of Iraq to a better life and to build a government."

  But France and Russia oppose the immediate lifting of oil and trade sanctions and have already made rival proposals.

  The United States could also face opposition from council members who want the world body to be a major player in creating an interim government for Iraq.

  US Assistant Secretary of State Kim Holmes arrived in Moscow yesterday to seek support for the removal of economic sanctions against Iraq, which Russia has said cannot be lifted until it is clear the country has no weapons of mass destruction.

  Holmes had an unscheduled meeting with Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov after talks with Russia's diplomatic point man on Iraq, Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov. He was to travel to Germany later in the day on a similar mission.

  Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Yuri Fedotov said on Wednesday that rather than lifting sanctions, Mos-cow only wants a suspension of the embargoes on food and medicine.

  Russia has already circulated its own draft resolution calling for Annan to run the entire oil-for-food program, including taking charge of Iraq's petroleum sales and future development of its oil fields until an internationally recognized Iraqi government comes to power.

  Phasing out the oil-for-food program over four months - as the United States now wants - would end UN control over Iraq's oil revenues.

  UN humanitarian programs operating under the oil-for-food program would be ended as well, though UN officials have started setting up new aid programs in Iraq. The program had been feeding up to 90 percent of Iraq's 24 million people.




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