Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

REVUE DE PRESSE. PRESS REVlEw.BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ.RIVISTA STAMPA.DENTRO
DROITS DES ÉTRANGERS
Une lettre ouverte
du collectif des libertés
.Les décisions prises par
l'administration française envers
plusieurs étrangers résidant
dans la Vienne sont
.. Inacceptables.. pour le colleCtif
poitevin de défense des
libertés. Il dénonce les mesures'
qui frappent trois Kurdes et
~~,Afrlcalns dans uni! Il!tttre
ouverte adressée cette semahie
au ministre de l'Intérieur
et au Aréfet.
L. 'collectif juge .. déplorable
.. ,le sort réservé à Nyhat
KacJl'len et Ismet Yesllkaya,
Kur~ assignés à résidence à
Poitiers sur décision du mlnlstèrè
de J'Intérieur depuis octobre
dernier ... Après avoir renOhcé
à les renvoyer en
Turquie, reconnaissant par là
m'''!e ,. caractère dangereux
d'une telle mesure, l'administration
les a placés dans une
~ ~~
....
~
e"I
~
=:
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situation sans Issue et psychologiquement
Inhumaine, Iain
de leur famille, sans régularisation
administrative, sans droit
au travail et dans des conditions
d'hébergement". 'Clstl-
ment les signataires de la lettre
ouverte.
La situation de Nyazl O~turk,
autre Kurde dont plusieurs
proches ont obtenu r~
cemment le statut de réfugléso
ne leur parait guère plus envia"
ble. Hyazl Ozturk a fait l'objet
d'une décision de reconduite à
la frontière en septembre
1992. ,Arrêté annulé par le tribunal
administratif trois jours
plus tard ... Au motif que la reconduite
dans son pays d'origine
comportait des risques
sérieux pour sa liberté et sa sécurlté",
souligne le collectif:
.. Malgré cela, le ministère de
l'Intérieur semble s'acharner à
lui faire courir tous ces risques
puisqu'II a demandé à M. le
Préfet de faire appel au conseil
d'Etat pour faire annuler la décision
des magistrats poitevins.
..
Les auteurs de la lettre
s'élèvent enfin contre .. les situations
Incompréhensibles
faites à Poitiers et à Chdtellerault
à plusieurs ressortissants
Iraqis Aimed Guns
At UN Inspectors,
Officials Report
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'" The AssocIated Press
~ UNITED NATIONS, New.
Q York - A United Nations official
(/) told the Security Council On
=: Wednesday that Iraq had aimed
;;;J anti-aircraft guns at a UN helico~
~ ter on a weapons inspection fligh~
and twice threatened to shoot it
~ down.
Z The incident on Monday was the
;
...
first major problem between the
Iraqi government and UN weapons
~ inspectors since the Clinton administration
took office and since Pres-
Q ident Saddam Hussein called for
...;l improved relations with the United
~ States and the United Nations.
~ Rolf Ekeus, head of the UN Spe-
= cial Commission in charge of Iraqi
...;l weapons inspections, informed the
< Security Council of what he called
Z Iraqi harassment, obstruction and
52 a violation of its cease-fire obliga-
~, tions.
~ "An Iraqi escort helicopter said
=: their plane would be shot down if it
~ flew over the site and our crew also
~ observed tbat anti-aircraft guns
~ were trained at their helicopter and
were tracking it," Mr. Ekeus said
after his closed briefing to the
council.
He said that the president of the
Security Council, Ahmed Snoussi
of Morocco, was to summon the
chief Iraqi delegate, Nizar Ham-
doon, and demand guarantees tm.t
UN fligbts would not ~ obstrucled
or threatened.
There was no immediate reaction
from Iraqi diplomats.
But Mr. Ekeus said that after the
incident Iraqi officials bad denied
it was a threat and had called the
warning "standard military practice."
He called the case "extremely
serious" and a violation of Iraq's
obligations under the UN ceasefire
and related resobAions, which
give full freedom to UN inspectors
and aircraft.
He also said he did not detect
any greater cooperation from the
Iraqi side than in the past.
Mr. Ekeus said that the incident
"is part of Iraq's overall strategy,
its salami tactics, to systematica11y
narrow the scope of our operations
and search."
• An Unusual Search
Michael R. Gordon of The New
York Times reported earlier from'
Washington:
Diplomatic officials said the
confrontation occurred as inspectors
began an unusual and complex
search for Scud missiles and relaled
equipment.
lhe etA bel1eved that Iraq was
hiding perbaps 200 Scuds, but the
inspectors have not found any.
On Monday, some inspectors
sèarched on the ground while a U-2
spy plane flew overhead .
A pair of UN helicopters joined
in the inspection, taking photographs
to chronicle any suspicious
activity by Iraqis.
As the two helicopters flew toward
the area, the crews saw that
Iraqi forces had trained anti-aircraft
guns on them..
Underscoring the threat, an Iraqi
official also warned the inspectors
against continuing, officials said.
The helicopters left the area,
then returned to complete their
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search.
But the delay may bave liven the
Iraqis time to remove matmel from
the area.
"When you are looking for something
that is highly mobile, a delay
is not helpful," a diplomat said.
Western officials said the UN
commission planned to evaluate
data from the U-2 flight to determine
if the Iraqis moved equipment
away while the helicopters
were gone.
Even if it turns out that no equipment
was moved, the Iraqi action
was seen as jeopardizing the UN
plan to carry out weapons inspections
anywhere it deems necessary.
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