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To: Condor who wrote (95953)	4/24/2003 9:49:30 AM
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Syria Opposes Lifting Sanctions on Iraq AP World News 04/24/2003 05:57:44 EST Sanctions on Iraq should not be lifted before the United Nations provides a formal declaration that the country has no weapons of mass destruction, Syria said Thursday, suggesting that the United States was trying to exploit Iraq's oil wealth. Lifting the sanctions before that would give the United States "the right to control Iraq's oil and install a government it prefers," the government-run Syria Times said. "(It would) legalize the U.S. and British invasion." The newspaper said U.S. officials want to distance the United Nations from "any meaningful role in postwar Iraq." The U.N. Security Council is divided over when and how to lift the sanctions. The United States wants the complete lifting of all sanctions, but France prefers a limited suspension of the trade, investment and air embargoes. Under U.N. Security Council resolutions, sanctions cannot be lifted until U.N. inspectors certify that Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have been destroyed along with the long-range missiles to deliver them. The United States opposes the return of U.N. weapons inspectors and has instead sent its own expert teams.