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UN Votes To To Lift The Sanctions On Iraq
Dennis Halliday Responds to the End
of Sanctions In Iraq
Arundhati Roy at Riverside Churc0h Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy
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Despite French concern that today's resolution would give
a, "insufficient" role to the United Nations in
the rebuilding of Iraq, as well as Russian demands that U.N.
weapons inspectors certify that Iraq is free of weapons of
mass destruction before the sanctions are lifted, the final
vote was 14 to nothing in favor of lifting the sanctions,
with only Syria abstaining.
Speaking after the vote, U.S. ambassador John Negroponte
announced the creation of a development fund for the rebuilding
of Iraq, to be controlled by Iraq's Central Bank, and he detailed
some of the changes that will now go into effect...
Tape: US Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte.
Following the vote, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan responded
to reporters' questions...
Tape: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, responding to a reporter's
question this morning after 14 members of the Security Council
voted to lift the 12 year-old economic sanctions on Iraq.
Syria was the lone abstention.
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Dennis Halliday Responds to the End of Sanctions
In Iraq
Dennis Halliday was the UN's humanitarian coordinator in
Iraq, and the Director of the Oil for Food program until his
1998 resignation in protest over what he called the West's,
"genocidal" sanctions against that country.
Halliday discussed the Security Council vote with Robert
Knight and Sharan Harper on Pacifica station WBAI's "Wake
Up Call," where he expressed relief that the sanctions
will be lifted, and regret that they had been imposed in the
first place.
Tape: Dennis Halliday former director of the United Nations'
Oil For Food Program in Iraq. He spoke with director Robert
Knight and Sharan Harper on Pacifica station WBAI's "Wake
Up Call."
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Arundhati Roy at Riverside Churc0h Instant-Mix Imperial
Democracy (Buy On Get One Free)
Gunmen fired anti-tank rockets at a U.S. armored vehicle
in the tense Iraqi town of Falluja, sending U.S. troops into
a shooting spree that killed two Iraqis, residents said on
Thursday.
As Chaos continues in Iraq, we present this speech today
of Arundhati Roy, the Indian political essayist, at the Riverside
Church in New York City about the US invasion of Iraq, the
destruction of the art museum, and the end of any law and
order in Iraqi cities.
Tape: Political essayist and author Arundhati Roy the winner
of the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things,
spoke at the Riverside Church in New York City on May 13,
2003 her latest book is War Talk, which is an attack on US
foreign policy.
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