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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 30 April - 6 May, 1998 Issue No.375 |
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Visits countIRAQI Foreign Minister Mohamed Al-Sahaf yesterday criticised the Security Council's renewal of sanctions, in force since 1990, and denied that an agreement between Baghdad and UN Secretary- General permitted unlimited inspections of Iraqi presidential palaces, Reuters reported.Sahaf said at a news conference in New York the accord referred to an initial visit and subsequent visits if deemed necessary. He stopped short, however, of making concrete threats to end cooperation with the weapons inspectors of the UN Special Commission and said Iraq would provide more facts and figures to the international community to speed the sanctions lifting. (see p...) |