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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (25389)	1/9/2005 2:06:42 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

French jet breaks UN embargo on Baghdad By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 23/09/2000) FRENCH doctors, artists and sports enthusiasts chartered a "humanitarian" flight to Baghdad yesterday, exposing the most serious rift between Western countries over the future of the embargo against Iraq. Anti-sanction activists disembark from a Boeing 737 at Baghdad yesterday after a flight approved by Paris The 75-member delegation of anti-sanctions activists set off with the blessing of the French government and was given a hero's welcome by Iraqi officials at the newly re-opened Saddam International Airport in Baghdad. Paris "notified" the United Nations committee overseeing sanctions on Thursday night, but pointedly did not request permission. It ignored the UN's request for a delay until yesterday afternoon so that the committee could decide if the flight should go ahead. France, with Russia and China, says that UN resolutions do not specifically ban commercial flights to Iraq. But Britain and America claim they count as an economic activity banned under the trade embargo imposed after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. telegraph.co.uk There's one. France also worked to weaken the mandate of the weapons inspectors (for example, in 2000 it recommended the dissolution of UNSCOM, the UN inspection body that Iraq had defied ryansanders.com There's two. How many do we need before you admit you've been had?