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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Sanctions likely to continue for Iraq
Troop buildup hurts chances for U.N. help
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Saddam Hussein's saber rattling appears to have cemented support in the Security Council for delaying any talk of easing the crushing U.N. sanctions against Iraq.
"The Iraqis, frankly, have blown it big-time up here because they were trying to persuade people that they were living up to their sanctions resolutions," U.S. Ambassador Madelaine Albright said yesterday on CBS. "That requires credibility, and they have blown their credibility."
The Council began circulating a
long-awaited report Monday night that said that Iraq was cooperating with U.N. weapons monitors and that a complex system to monitor any attempts to reacquire weapons of mass destruction was functioning.
"The report is fundamentally positive," said Rolf Ekeus, chairman of the U.N. special commission that prepared the document. "We had a very good chance of a lifting or easing (of sanctions) within six months. I felt we had something coming together."
Ekeus disputed U.S. claims that Iraq was hiding missiles and a biological warfare program from U.S. inspectors.
But, he said that Iraqi threats to end cooperation with U.N. monitors unless sanctions were lifted "put a question mark over our efforts."
"We feel that our assessment is correct." he said.
The report had been expected to set off a dispute in the 15-member body between countries that favored easing the embargo — led by France and Russia — and those that wanted to keep the sanctions — headed by the United States and Britain.
The Gulf War cease-fire resolution calls for lifting the oil embargo, but not the full trade sanctions, after the monitoring program is functioning and Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction.
But the lifting is at the council's discretion, and the Iraqi troop buildup near the Kuwaiti border apparently has united the council in calling for a postponement of any debate on easing the sanctions.
The Associated Press
GENEVA — About 2.5 million children, pregnant women and nursing mothers face severe malnutrition because of food shortages in Iraq, according to a U.N. report released yesterday.
The I.U.N. Children's Fund said the Iraqi government's recent cutbacks in food rations meant that Iraqi children and women risked being severely malnourished.
In February, the United Nations'
In announcing the reduced rations late last month, Baghdad blamed the cubbacks on a poor harvest and on U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's August 1900 invasion of its southern neighbor.
Food shortages endanger 2.5 million Iraqis
special investigator for human rights in Iraq bumed the shortages on Saddam Hussein's refusal to sell oil to buy food for his countrymen.
UNICEF assigned no blame but said the latest cuts halted the daily rations of such staples as rice and sugar. Even before that, many of Iraq's estimated 20 million people were receiving rations covering only half their basic nutritional needs.
"Children, pregnant women and lactating mothers could be seriously affected due to a shortfall of calorie intake of up to 50 percent compared with the energy required," said the report, compiled by UNICEF's staff in Baghdad.
Among the consequences were
increases in infant mortality and deteriorating intelligence levels among young children deprived of sufficient nourishment, the report said.
UNICEF estimated there were 125,000 Iraqi households with children under 1 year old, and 575,000 households with children under 5. There are also an estimated 230,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers affected by the food shortages.
Government workers and the military receive an estimated $3 per month to supplement their ration by buying goods on the open market. Only 3.5 million people receive the allowance, the UNICEF report estimated.
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