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Politics : Middle East Politics
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To: StormRider who wrote (2427)10/20/2002 3:46:37 PM
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SPAIN'S TOP DIPLOMAT IN IRAQ RESIGNS
Associated Press, 10/18/02

MADRID, - Spain's top diplomat in Iraq resigned, saying he could not support his government's pro-U.S. stance in the crisis with Baghdad.

But the foreign minister insisted Friday the envoy was leaving because of hardship associated with the job.

Fernando Valderrama, 51, the Spanish charge d'affaires in Iraq since August 2000, said Thursday he had stepped down because he opposed Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's position that Spain would endorse a U.S. attack on Iraq even without a U.N. resolution.

"The official position is so markedly pro-U.S. that if you don't support Washington's policy, it is as if you are working against your own government," Valderrama was quoted as saying in Friday's edition of El Pais…
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