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more attractive," Galloway said The U.N.ambassadors orthe United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- the five permanent members of the Security
Council - met in New York on Friday to discuss a potential resolution.
Galloway arrived in Baghdad on Saturday at the head of a convoy of supporters after a two-month journey across Europe, North Mrica and the Middle East
on a double-dedœr London bus to drum up support for the lifting of the U.N.embargo. The stringent economic sanctions were imposed on Iraq after its 1990
invasion of Kuwait Galloway spoke to reporters after briefmg the Iraqi parliament on his trip. The convoy, which left London in early September, is dubbed
the "Mariam Convoy" after Mariam Hamza, a six-year-old Iraqi girl whom Galloway arranged to be taken to Scotland in 1997 for leukaemia treatment.
She returned home last year after recovering but suffered a relapse in August Blinded and apparently suffering brain damage, she was sent to Amman for
treatment last month. "One of the purposes to bring Mariam Hamza to Britain was to show the British people that Iraqis are people just like us and their
children are like ours," Galloway said. Iraq says the U.N.sanctions have caused well over one million deaths. It says it has complied fully with resolutions
related to the ceasefrre that ended the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait and that the sanctions should be scrapped entirely.
Galloway visited a Baghdad hospital on Sunday and was told that the U.N. embargo killed three children every day. He also visited the Amiriya Shelter
Baghdad where hundreds of people were killed when U.S. forces bombed it during the Gulf war.
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32ND BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL FAIR - nJRKEY COMES
AMONG FIVE COUNTRIES MOSTLY REPRESENTED IN FAIR
ANKARA,Nov 8 (A.A) - The Turkish firms which come among the five countries which are mostly represented in the 32nd Baghdad International Fair, are
pleased with the interest shown in the fair. Fornm Fair company, which organized the Thrkish firms' participation in the fair, said that the Baghdad international
fair started last Monday and it will end on November 10.The Turkish pavilion in which the Iraqi high ranking officials are also interested, has been founded
in an area of nearly 1500 square meters.
Mieanwhile representatives
of Thrkish firms and Iraqi officials came together at the "Turkish Day" dinner held by the Iraqi Embassy on November 3. The two
sides noted in that meeting that the commercial relations between the two countries have to be upgraded to the level before the Gulf Crisis. The fair is a good
opportunity to reach this goal, they stressed. The number of those who visit the 32nd International Baghdad fair, is expected to exceed two million people.
Meanwhile a "Thrkey Export Products Fair" will be held in April, 2000 in Baghdad after the interest shown to the Thrkish firms in the fair was taken into
consideration.
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Iraq Says U.N. Twists Rights Facts
By Scott Neuman, Associated Press Nov.8, 1999
UNITED NATIONS--Iraq defended its ban on human rights monitors Monday, saying the United Nations had exaggerated and twisted facts in a report that
said the situation in the country was worsening. Iraq's undersecretary for foreign affairs, Nizar Hamdoon, accused U.N.special investigator Max van der Stoel
of using human rights to achieve "political objectives."
In a report to the General Assembly's human rights committee last week, van der Stoel described the rights situation in Iraq as having "few comparisons -
since the end of the Second World War." Repression of civil and political rights had continued unabated, said van der Stoel, the special investigator on Iraq for
the U.N.Commission on Human Rights. Bacre Waly Ndiaye, the New York director of the U.N.High Commissioner for Human Rights, presented the report
Friday on behalf of van der Stoel, saying Saddam Hussein's "arbitrary wielding of total power renders fundamentally no rule of law." "Extreme and brutal
force is threatened and applied without hesitation," Ndiaye said.
Harndoon made no apologies for continuing the bar on visits by van der Stoel, who was last in Iraq in 1992. "If cooperation means spreading human rights
monitors in Iraq _ we would like to stress here that Iraq utterly refuses the idea," Hamdoon told the committee. Hamdoon accused van. der Stoel of using his
mission "to drfam!' the Iraqi I!0vernment" and achirv!' political ohjectives.
He said the report failed to highlight the suffering that has resulted from U.N.sanctions, imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The sanctions cannot
be lifted until the Security Council says Iraq has scrapped its efforts to build weapons of mass destruction. "How can the special coordinator who is
entrusted with the status of human rights in Iraq ignore the reality that the full range of sanctions are a punishment for the Iraqi people?" Hamdoon
asked. Van der Stoel's report, however, said Iraq had not complied with its obligations under the sanctions, and had failed to take measures to alleviate the
suffering.
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