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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: George Coyne who wrote (382374)	3/30/2003 10:23:09 PM
From: Techplayer	Respond to of 769670

George, I agree. Baghdad wants a humanitarian crisis to fuel the anti-war drums worldwide. Baghdad rejects UN oil-for-food plan 31/03/2003 04:26 - (SA) Baghdad - Iraq Saturday rejected a new Security Council resolution renewing the seven-year-old oil-for-food programme under sole charge of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. "Only Iraq can administer this programme," Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf told a press conference in response to the resolution adopted by the council unanimously Friday. "They have made a mockery of the (1995) resolution" which paved the way for the launch of the programme on which an estimated 60% of Iraqis now depend for food and medicine, Sahhaf said. "Any measure which does not involve the Iraqi government cannot be implemented on the ground," he added, in reference to the US-led coalition's failure to secure more than a small pocket of Iraqi territory close to the Kuwaiti border. The latest resolution, 1472, gives the UN chief sole authority for a renewable period of 45 days to make purchases of food and medicine using income from UN-supervised Iraqi oil exports.