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Posted on 04/14/2003 1:49:20 PM PDT by Shermy
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said on Monday U.S. charges that Syria was developing chemical weapons and has offered refuge to Iraqi leaders should be addressed in the United Nations Security Council.
Speaking during a visit to the Dominican Republic, Chretien said it was possible that nations, including Syria, had weapons of mass destruction.
But he said U.N. Security Council resolution 1441, the 2002 resolution that threatened Iraq (news - web sites) with "serious consequences" if it did not scrap weapons of mass destruction, clearly established the procedure to follow in such cases.
Chretien, a steadfast opponent of the U.S.-led war against Iraq, said that in the case of possible possession of weapons of mass destruction, the United Nations must first examine the basis of the charge and then agree a resolution within the Security Council.
Washington on Monday accused Syria of testing chemical weapons and harboring associates of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Syria denied that it had chemical weapons or had cooperated with Saddam. Syria is not party to international conventions banning chemical weapons and so is under no legal constraint not to have them.
That's correct, and I also believe Shell is involved, although I'm not sure whether Shell is American or Canadian or what? We have Shell stations up here, are there any south of the border?
The heck you say!!! How about canada is a proper place for the u.n.!!! I'll help run them out of... I mean move them North.
That isn't necessarily Canada's opinion, that's Chretien's opinion, which has so far been 180 degrees to that of alot of Canucks.
I got so po'd listening to some United Nations Association(didn't know they even had one)guy on Fox News about what the United States should do by letting the UN take over in Iraq by making up with the French, Germans and Russians.
They were working with Iraq behind our backs. Why would we trust them to help rebuild Iraq?
He kept saying that we NEEDED the UN because, why would the United States want to do this alone? Well, excuse me, but I think we asked for help and they refused. They sided with Saddam.
No, we don't NEED the UN! They only cost us more money getting in the way to be less effective.
That's interesting considering (see source):
The Western oil company with the closest ties to the late Saddam is France's TotalFinaElf. That's not the curious fact, that's just business as usual in the Fifth Republic. This is the curious fact: As Diane wrote in February and again last week, "Total's biggest shareholder is Montreal's Paul Desmarais, whose youngest son is married to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's daughter."
You got that right, our gov't recently pumped a few hundred million into bilingulism and promoting what is essentially a dying language....
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