Iraq's letter to the UN accepting resolution on weapons inspection
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The following is the Iraqi letter to the U.N., translated by the Iraqi
government and distributed at the press center in Baghdad.
"In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
"Go thou to Pharaoh, for he has indeed transgressed all bounds.
But speak to him mildly; perchance he may take warning or fear (Allah)"
(Allah's is the Word of Truth)
His excellency
Mr. Kofi Annan
The Secretary-General of the United Nations
New York, N.Y.
Your Excellency
Assalamu Alaykum,
You may recall the huge clamor fabricated by the President of the United
States administration, in the biggest and most wicked slander against Iraq,
supported in malicious intent, and spearheaded in word and malevolence, by
his lackey Tony Blair, when they disseminated the claim that Iraq had
perhaps produced, or was on its way to produce, nuclear weapons, during the
time when the United Nations inspectors had been absent from Iraq since
1998. Then they returned to stress that Iraq had, in fact produced chemical
and biological weapons. They both know, as well as we do, and so can other
countries, that such fabrications are baseless. But does the knowledge of
the truth constitute elements for interaction in the politics of our day,
which has witnessed the unleashing of the American administration's evil to
its fullest extent, dashing all hope in any good? Indeed, is there any good
to be goped for, or expected, from the American administrations, now that
they have been transformed by their own greed, by Zionism as well as by
other known factors, in the tyrant of the age.
Let's go back to say that Iraq, having seen this fabrication work perhaps
with some countries and amongst public opinion, while others maintained
silence, confronted them with its agreement to the return of the UN
inspectors, having agreed on this first with you, as UN chief, in New York
on 16 September, 2002, and later in a press statement issued jointly in
Vienna following a meeting on 30th September-1st October between an Iraqi
technical delegation headed by Dr. Amer Al-Sa'di, Chief Inspector Hans Blix
and Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA).
But after Iraq's acceptance of the return of the UN inspectors had become an
established fact, including the agreement of 19 October 2002, on the date of
their return, and only a few hours this agreement was reached, Colin Powell,
the US Secretary of State, declared that he would refuse to accept the
inspectors' return to Iraq. In the meantime the gang of evil returned to
talking about adopting a new resolution, or new resolutions, in order to
create something for the world to talk about, other than following the work
of the inspectors and then seeing the fact already stated by Iraq, which was
that Iraq neither had produced nor was in possession of any weapons of mass
destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological, throughout the time of the
inspectors' absence from Iraq.
However, representatives at the United Nations and its agencies, especially
those from permanent member-states, instead of fellowship up on this and
hence, expose those responsible for the dissemination of lies and
fabrications, were busy discussing the type and wording of the new
resolution. They were indulged in what word or letter to add here or omit
there, until they adopted a text under the pretext that it would be better
to take the kicks of a raging bull in a small circle than to face its horns
in an open space. The text was adopted under the American Administration's
pressure and threat it would leave UN, if it did not agree to what America
wanted, which is, to say the least, extremely evil and shameful to every
honest member of the United Nations who recalls the provisions of its
Charter, and see that some people feel ashamed on behalf of those who
shameless.
Mr. Secretary-General,
We have said to the member of the Security-Council whom we have contacted
us, when they told us about the pretexts of the Americans and their threat
to perpetrate aggression against our country, whether unilaterally or with
participated from others, if the Council were not to allow them to have
their way, that we preferred, if it ever became necessary to see America
carry out its aggression against us unilaterally, when we would have to
confront it relying on Allah, instead of seeing the American government
obtaining an international cover with which to camouflage its falsehood,
partially or completely, bringing it closer to the truth, so that it may
stab the truth with the dagger of evil and confronted the United States
before when it looked as it does now, and this was one of the factors of its
isolation in the human environment on the globe at large.
The aggressionism of the United States of America and its single-handed
infliction of injustice and destruction on those subjected to its inequity,
in the forefront of whom are the Muslims and Arab believers, is the basic
reason why America has withdrawn its ambassadors and other staff, close its
embassies, and restrict its interests in many parts of the world; while
reaping the hatred of the peoples of the world due to its policies and
aggressive objectives. This is a situation which no other country in the
world has experienced before, including the fathers of old colonialism. The
Security Council, however, or indeed those who can basically play an
influential role in it have, instead of leaving the American administration
and its lackey reap the result of their evil, saved wrong-doing rather than
hated it. We shall see when remorse will not do any good for those who bite
on their fingers.
Mr. Secretary-General,
The strength of influence of any international (al) organization rests on
the belief of the human environment in which the organization exists and
which places its trust in it, once the organization declares that it has
been founded to achieve goals important to mankind. We fear that the United
Nations Organization may lose the trust and attachment of peoples, that is
if it has not fallen to that place already. This is due to the exploitation
of the organization of powerful interests, whenever their greedy ambitions
converge at the expense of the interests of other peoples. It may also be
due to expediency and compromise amongst those interests in falsehood at the
expense of truth. So far United Nations Organization and its agencies will
collapse in the same way as did its predecessor, the league of Nations.
Then, the responsibility for this will not rest with the American
administrations alone, but will also be due to the weakness of the timid who
will allow themselves to work for American interests, under the threat, lure
or promises of the American administration.
He who remains silent in the defense of truth is a dumb devil. Nothing seems
more reprehensible than the silence maintained by those who represented
their nations in the security Council, as they discussed the American draft
resolution, in the face of a question raised by representative of Mexico
regarding the possibility of lifting the blockade imposed on Iraq. The
Mexican representative said, during consultations at the Security Council
over SCR 1441 on 7 November 2002, that he did not find convincing the
explanations presented by the American Permanent Representative, regarding
the absence of any reference to the lifting of sanctions and the
establishment in the Middle East region of a zone free of weapons of mass
destruction, and that he would convey this to his government in order to
receive instructions. The British Representative responded by saying that he
has listened to the statements made by the delegations of Syria and Mexico
regarding the inclusion in the draft text of a paragraph on the lifting of
sanctions. He went on to say that Iraq had been provided with the
opportunity to dispose of its weapons of mass destruction, but Iraq had
ignored that opportunity and decided to keep possession of those WMDs.
Hence, he added, it would be inappropriate to include a reference to the
lifting of sanctions as long as Iraq remained in possession of those
weapons, even though an indirect reference to that effect was being
accommodated.
We ask here, why is it that none of the representatives of SC member-states
asked their British counterpart when, where and how such an alleged decision
was taken by Iraq to keep possession of the weapons of mass destruction.
They treated the claim made by the British representative as if it were of
no significance to them; Or, rather, as if it were of no concern to them to
say the truth. Does not this instance, along with other things and the
decline of this type of international organizations point to the possibility
of the collapse of this international organization which was founded in
order to preserve world peace and security, but has now been transformed
into a kitched-house for big-power bargaining, providing cover for war,
destruction, blockades and starvation to be inflicted upon peoples.
The future will be determined in the light of the possibility for reform, or
the inability to achieve reform. The future of the United Nations is no
exception to this. Hence, all those who are truly concerned about the
well-being of this organization, in deeds not only in words, and about its
work on the basis of the UN Charter, so that stability, justice and fairness
will prevail in the world, providing a road-map for peace, freedom and
cooperation to flourish amongst peoples, are called upon to be careful and
to adhere to the UN Charter and international law and not to the whims and
incontrollable instincts of those who threaten the world with their evil
schemes weaponry and those who seek to achieve their interests
narrow-mindedly by resorting to bargaining at the expense of the truth,
justice and fairness.
We know that those who pressed the Security Council to adopt resolution No.
1441 have other objectives than making sure that Iraq had not developed mass
destruction weapons in the absence of the inspectors since 1998. You are
aware of how and who stood behind their absence. We also know that there are
no true, just, or fair reasons behind the adoption of this resolution in the
name of the security council, after the well known understanding agreement
between the representatives of Iraq and the UN Secretary General and the
press statement issued jointly by Blix, ElBaradei, and the Iraqi
representatives. We hereby inform you that we will deal with resolution
1441, despite its bad contents, if it is to be implemented according to the
premeditated evil of the parties of ill-intent, the important thing in this
is trying to spare our people from harm. But we will not forget, nor should
others do, that safeguarding our people's dignity, security, independence
and protecting our sovereignty and sublime values, is as a sacred duty in
our leadership's and government's agenda. Therefore, as we said in the
foresaid agreement and press statement, we are prepared to receive the
inspectors, so they can carry out their duties, and make sure Iraq had not
developed weapons of mass destruction, during their absence since 1998.
We hereby ask you to inform the Security Council that we are prepared to
receive the inspectors within the assigned timetable. The parties concerned
should bear in mind that wer are in our holy month of Ramadan which means
that the people are fasting, and this holy month will be followed by
Muslim's Eid. Nevertheless, we will cooperate with the concerned UN bodies
and officials on the background of all this, and of the tripartite,
French-Russian-China, statement. Dealing with the inspectors, the government
of Iraq will, also, take into consideration, their way of conduct, the
intentions of those who are ill-intentioned amongst them and their improper
approach in showing respect to the people's national dignity, their
independence and security, and their country's security, independence and
sovereignty. We are eager to see them perform their duties in accordance
with the international law as soon as possible. If they do so,
professionally and lawfully, without any premeditated intentions, the lairs'
lies will be exposed to public opinion, and the declared objective of the
Security Council will be achieved. It will then become the lawful duty of
the Security Council to lift the blockade and all other unjust sanctions on
Iraq. If it does not, all the people's of good will in the world, in
addition to Iraq, will tell it to do so. The SC will be compelled to before
the public opinion and the law to activate paragraph 14 of its resolution
No. 687, by applying it to the Zionist entity (Israel), and then, to all the
Middle East region, to make it a region void of mass destruction weapons.
The number of just people will, then, increase in the world, and Iraq's
possibility of driving away the cawing of the crows of evil that daily raid
its land, and kill Iraqis and destroy their property by their bombs. This
will help the stability of the region and the world, if it is accompanied by
a resolution that will not be based on double standards, to put an end to
Zionist occupation of Palestine, and other occupied Arab territories, and if
the warmongers stop their aggressions on the Muslims and the world.
Therefore, through you, we reiterate the same words to Security Council:
Send your inspectors to Iraq to make sure of this, and everyone will be
sure, if their way of conduct is supervised so that it becomes legal and
professional, that Iraq has not developed weapons of mass destruction,
whether nuclear, chemical, or biological, as claimed by evil people. The
lies and manipulation of the American government will be exposed, while the
world will see how truthful and adequate are the Iraqis in what they say and
do. But if the whims of the American administration, the Zionist desires,
their followers, intelligence services, threats, and foul temptation, were
given the chance to temper and play with inspection teams or some of their
members, the colors would then be confused and resulting commotion will
distort the facts and push the situation in dangerous directions which is
something fair-minded people do not wish for, as well as the people,
including my government, want to bring forward the facts as they are. The
fieldwork and implementation will be the decisive factors that will reveal
whether the were really for the Security Council to make sure Iraq is void
of those alleged weapons, or whether the whole thing was an evil cover by
those who were behind the resolution who have no scruples to utter debased
slander and to tell lies to the public opinion including to their own
peoples.
So, let the inspectors come to Baghdad to carry out their duties in
accordance with the law, and then we will hear and see along with who want
to hear, see and move according each one's responsibility and rights. The
final word and reference will still be resolution No. 687 with its
obligations on both the Sec General and Iraq, along with the code of conduct
agreed upon in the agreement signed by the Sec Gen in New York on 16th
September 2002, and the press statement of Hans Blix and ElBaradei in Vienna
in 30/90 1/10/2002.
Mr. Secretary-General,
Please assume your responsibilities, by saying and advising the unfair
people that their unfairness to Muslims, faithful Arabs, and to all, will be
of dire consequences, and that God, the almighty, is capable of doing
everything. Tell them that the proud Iraqi people are faithful and Mujahid
and who had fought the old colonialism, imperialism and aggression,
including the tyrant's aggression, for years and years. The price this
courageous people paid to safeguard their independence, dignity, sublime
principles was rivers of blood, with a lot of deprivation and loss of their
riches, along with their eternal achievements and record of which they are
proud. Therefore we hope you will, Mr. Secretary General, advise the
ignorants not to push things to the precipice, in the implementation,
because the people of Iraq will not choose to live at the price of their
dignity, country, freedom or sanctities, and they would rather make their
lives the price if that was the only way to safeguard what they must
safeguard.
I wish to inform your Excellency before I conclude this letter, that I
intend to forward another letter to you on a later date, in which I shall
state our observations the measures and procedures, contained in SCR 1441
that are contrary to international law, UN charter, the facts already
established and the measures contained in previous relevant resolutions of
the Security Council.
"Do ye secure He Who is in Heaven will not cause you to be swallowed up by
the earth when it shakes"
(Allah's is the Word of Truth)
Allah is the Greatest.
Naji Saberi Ahmed
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Republic of Iraq
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