Exode (des Kurdes d'Irak) - Institut kurde de Paris

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SOON after the United Nations
Security Council
foreign lninisttr, told the Nat- property and legal. rights," it
iônal Assembly. ' said. "We call on those who
" He did not state directly have left their homes in the
overwhelmingly approved a
,that the minister would enter porthern cities and villages to'
resolution' dictating tough;
:~ without authorisation ,return to live in peace and
ceasefrre terms to Iraq, talks
'cfrom Baghdad but added: 'share the victory and security
were started on how hundreds
:',"Although one must abide by with everyone else,"
of thousands of Iraqi Kurds:
could:\OO' âSslsted. .. , , '
:international obligations, , But Latif Rashid, a spokes-:
~sometimes it is necessary tp, :man for the Iraqi Kurdistan
The., nin~pagetext of the'
violate internationallaw.'"
!Front, a coalition of the main
:resolutionadopted by the'
President Mitterrand told a ppposition groups, said:
,council by 12 votes ,to one,
cabinet meeting that the sec- ;'People are being killed every'
with Cubaopposing and Ecuador
and Yemen abstaining,
..the embargo against Iraq "as are littering the hills of Kurdi-
'urity council should maintain ,second. Hundreds of bodies',
,was the. .longest and most
long as the repression lasts" :Stan." Helicopter gunships
:complex in' the council's history,
butit ignored the plight
that ,the UN should work to 70 miles long, and phos-
against, the Kurds. He said were strafing the convoys,up~
:of the Kurds.
together with aid organ- phorous and napalm bombs~
FolloWing the vote, council
isations to send food ml!; wer:ebeingfired by long-range
members began consultations
after Turkey complained that
,Iraq's "inhuman repression"
:represented a threat to international
peace and security
that would justify intervention
by the UN.
Turkey was drafting' a
resolution emphasising
humànitarian as'sistance,'
while France was pressing the
council_~9.der:nan4that Bagh-
däd OpeD talks with the Kurds.
Britain voiced its support
for Kurdish and other rebels
:trying to overthrow President
Saddam Husse~ and'~_d Iraq
would remain ostraciSed as
long as he retained power.'
"My government believes that
it will prove impossible for
Iraq to rejoin the community
,of -civilised nations while,
•Saddam remains in power,'"
'Sir David Hannay, the British
ambassador, told the coUncil.
"We have recently been having
contacts with many mem-
.bers of the Iraqi opposition,
'both Sunni and Shia, Arab
and Kurd."
Bernard Kouchner,.
•Fran~'s j~nior minister for
humanitarian action, is to
visit northern Iraq to try to
help the Kurdish refugees."
Paris wâs waiting for authorisation
for M Kouchner to fly.
over Iran and' Turkey.. ill
possible with a cargo of medicine,
clothing and food, Roland
Dumas, the, French
medicine urgently to sutrering; artillery, he said. He appealed
,minorities in Iraq. for urgent help from' the
If the council did not take United States and allies to
~uch action "the political and "prevent this genocide".
@oral authority'pfthe UN ' International relief agencies
~ould be gJllvely affected". said that between two and'
i A Kurdisbspokesmari three million Kurdish refu-
:Claimed last night that hun- 1 gees, who were fleeing repri-,
,dreds of thousands of defenc&-' sais from Saddam's forces
,less Kurdish, civi1ians',fl~ng', faced a "catastrophe". HoS:
~ON mountain roads ,to the pitals in the mountains were,
~ ~nd Turkish ooRiers said to be overflowing.
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FI~ance-Iran--h\:l.rdes
M. Dumas: Téhéran "soutient et comprend" l'action hL.lmanitairede la Ft'ance E'm
faveur des Kurdes
PARIS 4 avr IAFP) - Le ministre iranien des Affaires étrangères Ali Akbar
,Velayati a assuré la France de "la compr,éhension et du soutien" de Téhéran
pour son action en faveur des réfugiés kurdes d'Irak, a indiqué jeudi le chef
de la diplomatie française Roland DumasJ ,
Interrogé à l'issue d'une audition dévant la Commission des Affaires
étrangères et de la Défense du Sénat. M, Dumas a indiqué qu'il avait reçu
durant la nuit, lors d'une conversation, téléphonique avec son homologue
iranien, le feu vert pour l'acheminemen~ à travers l'Iran de l'aide que la
France souhaite faire parvenir aux réfugiés kurdes sur la frontières
'irako-iranienne.
"J 'ai rE'?ÇL~ l'assurance que le Secrét~lire d'Etat à l'action humanitaire
Bernard Kouchner sera bien accueilli à Téhéran" o~ il doit arriver vendredi
pour accompagner l'aide f~~nçaisé~ ~ ég~lement déclaré le ministre en ajoutant
q~e les autorités iraniennes avaient accepté de fournir des camions pour
,transporter cette aide vers la frontière.
lA Téhéran, l'agence officielle IRNA a indiqué de son coté que, durant sa
conversation avec M. Velayati, M. Dumas;avait qualifié "d'inquiétante" la
sitLJation intérieL~re de l'Irak, et a préconisé "des consLütatiotlS plus
pow;séE:!sentr'e Paris et Téhératl sur ce sujet", .
IDe son cOté, toujours selon l'IRNA,M.Velayati a estimé que la situation
ch~s réfL~9iés était "déplorable", et a déclaré que "].a RépubliqLH? b:üamiqLH?
d'Iran continLHi!raità leL~r accorder son aide hL.lmanitair'e"),
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