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IRAQ: IRAQ URGES ARABS TO BREAK AIR EMBARGO.(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, July, 2000

Iraqi Foreign Minister Muhammad Sa'id Al-Sahhaf has called on Arab leaders to break the air embargo on Iraq, AFP reported on 27 June. He said "we call on them to do that because such a move is part of their duty toward Iraq, which has always fought in the name of the Arab nation." Al-Sahhaf pointed out that UN Security Council Resolution 670, which imposed the sanctions on Iraq in 1990, "does not prohibit civilian flights destined for or proceeding from Iraq, and simply provides for 'a verification of goods'" carried on flights to Iraq.

A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said in April that the embargo against Iraq "has no legal existence" because there is no Security Council resolution that specifically envisages such an embargo. The AFP report adds that...

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