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  • Iraq wants U.N. to lift sanctions and remnants of sanctions and missing money returned

    02/01/2005 8:16:43 PM PST · by SmithL · 46 replies · 1,979+ views
    AP ^ | 2/1/5 | EDITH M. LEDERER
    UNITED NATIONS -- Iraq wants the United Nations to lift all sanctions and stop using the country's oil revenue to pay compensation to victims of the 1991 Gulf War and the salaries of U.N. weapons inspectors, Iraq's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday. Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie called sanctions "anachronistic and inappropriate" and said it's time for the Security Council to recognize that Iraq is a "much more internationally friendly" country that wants to be at peace with its neighbors. No longer needed, he said, was the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, which was responsible for dismantling Iraqi programs to build chemical...