Iraqi foreign minister asks UN to investigate US "spying" in Iraq.
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Iraqi foreign minister asks UN to investigate US "spying" in Iraq.
Text of report by Iraqi news agency INA web site
United Nations, 5 September: Iraq has demanded the United Nations
to open an investigation into the US exploitation of UN activities,
using them as cover for aggressive acts of espionage, threatening
the national security of states and belittling the United Nation's
independence, integrity and credibility.
In a message to the UN secretary-general, which was conveyed to him
today by ambassador Muhammad al-Duri, Iraq's permanent representative
to the United Nations, Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, commenting on a
statement by Rolf Ekeus, chairman of the dissolved UNSCOM [UN Special
Commission on Iraqi disarmament], said that Ekeus's statement was yet
further proof, to be added to previous documented evidence, that the
United States had used UN activities as a cover for aggressive acts of
espionage, threatening the national security of states. These US acts
also displayed the United States' disdain for the United Nations, its
integrity and credibility.
Sabri said that, in view of this revelation by Rolf Ekeus, we reaffirm
our request that the United Nations open an investigation into this
issue, declare this fact to the international community, and call
to account those accused of neglecting their duty. At the same time,
strict work rules should be made to prevent exploitation of UN
activities for spying on countries and threatening their national
security in the interest of other countries.
In his message, Foreign Minister Sabri stressed that in accordance
with international law Iraq wants to assert its right to demand
compensation for damage and human, material and psychological losses
resulting from the acts of espionage and subversion carried out by
certain members of the weapons inspection teams and by the monitoring
teams of UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] for
the US, British and Israeli military and political espionage agencies.
These teams fabricated false evidence, claiming Iraq's non-compliance
[with UN Security Council resolutions.] A case in point was the VX
scandal, which was aimed at prolonging the embargo, threatening Iraq's
sovereignty, independence and domestic and foreign security.
Sabri pointed out that the continued comprehensive and inhuman embargo
imposed on Iraq was a result of those acts of espionage. He noted that
by early August 2002, the embargo has caused the deaths of 1,732,000
Iraqi citizens, the majority of whom were children and elderly people.
The acts of espionage also facilitated targeting Iraq's industrial,
cultural, and scientific installations and public and medical
facilities during repeated US attacks on Iraq, which have jeopardized
Iraq's national security.
It is to be recalled that Rolf Ekeus, chief of the dissolved UNSCOM,
made a statement to Swedish Radio on July 28, 2002, which was also
published in the Swedish newspaper Dagbladet. In his statement Ekeus
said that the Americans exploited UNSCOM for spying purposes on Iraq.
He noted that the United States succeeded in incorporating spies
into UNSCOM as experts. He admitted that the United States wanted to
obtain information on the Iraqi security agencies and their strength
as well as on the places of residence of President Saddam Husayn.
The Americans also tried to install bugging devices and audio and
video transmitters in numerous Iraqi sites, and installed a monitoring
control centre in UNSCOM headquarters to analyse the information.
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