Per G-Man.....pinging for the pajama sleuths!
Here is a good one:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/council/russ0009.htm
A quote from the article:
In a recent letter to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general, Igor Ivanov, Russia's foreign minister, complained that the government was coming under increasing pressure from the "federal assembly, many social and political interests, and business and industrial circles . . .in favour of mitigating the limitations imposed on Russia by the sanctions in the field of its commercial and economic relations with Iraq."
The Russian letter underlines deepening divisions in the UN Security Council over Iraqi policy. Jacques Chirac, France's president, last week made clear his disapproval of the ongoing sanctions. "We have never been in breach of the UN sanctions, even though we consider this sanctions policy is dangerous, inhuman and inappropriate," he said.
The Russian and French positions are giving Iraq hope that the sanctions, if not lifted, will soon become meaningless. In an interview with the FT, Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy prime minister, said the Russian letter proved that Iraq's trading partners were growing increasingly impatient with the embargo.
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Oh, come on. Can't we just leave the job to those dedicated investigative reporters at seeBS?
Or, Woodstein! Where's Woodstein!
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Bookmarking bump. Thanks for the ping.
You MUST REMOVE me from your ping list....I have asked you about three times now.....thanks.
Bump!
Thanks. How the United States could sit in meetings with the involved Countries after the expose' on the Oil for Food program in unbelievable.
The third world thugs now include France . China and Russia and the ever ebullient KOFI ANNAN (Jerk).
These creeps must give up their veto position forever.
Yikes! we threw Pete Rose out of Baseball for lying for life.