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Baghdad willing to study unconditional ceasefire

US rules out pause in war
US President George Bush announced Tuesday that aerial bombing of Iraq would con tinue for some time till a date was fixed for land offensive, according to agencies.
President Bush’s announcement came after he held exclusive talks with the Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs* of Staff. General Colin Powe I who had just flown back to Washington from a visit to Saudi Arabia.
The United States on Monday ruled out a pause in the Gulf war ahead of ground fighting with Iraq.
Washington also said it welcomed a new flurry of peace initiatives as long as they did not promote an unconditional ceasefire.
After several weeks of aerial bombing of Iraqi targets. President George Bush and his senior officials are considering when to launch a ground war to (Oree Iraq out of Kuwait.
Speaking in Tunisia on Monday. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saddam Ilammadl said his nation was willing to study any call for an unconditional ceasefire in the Gulf war — a move not supported by the United States.
Baghdad radio said earlier on Monday it would never ac-cept a ceasefire In the Gulf war and urged the people of Arab states aligned against Baghdad to revolt against their rulers.
Meanwhile, two formations of French Jaguar warplanes at tacked Iraqi artillery positions in southern Kuwait today, a French spokesman said.
"It was In a zone where we have already worked and where there is more work to be done." General Claude Solanet told reporters.
For the second day running, a French reconnaissance plane photographed parts of Iraq where French fuicea might fight in a ground offensive, he said
Iraq claimed that thousands
of civilians have been killed in 26 days of aerial bombing by the multi-national forces.
A military communique broadcast by Baghdad Radio said 28 civilian targets were hit and 35 military positions bomb since the war broke out on January 17.
Despite the relentless Allied air pounding -- 69.000 sorties. Including the 2.900 flown In the past 24 hours under favourable weather conditions, according to the Pentagon - a defiant Iraq vowed to fight on.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saadoun Hammadl said on arrival in Algiers late Monday from Tunis that Iraq "Is ready to engage in the land battle at any moment'.
Iraq's air force Is being decimated by Allied bombing and is unlikely to be capable of mounting a challenge against the US-led coalition forces, a British military spokesman said on Monday.
Group Captain Niall Irving told a news briefing that Iraqi aircraft concealed In bunkers were being subjected to relentless Allied raids.
He said British planes came under "heavier than usual" ground fire from SAM missiles and anti-aircraft batteries on their latest missions.
Reports said Allied air strikes hit Iraqi fuel depots In the Sabhan area on Sunday
It said Iraqi troops confiscated all supplies in Kuwait's petrol stations last week.
US Marines are using the Israeli guided aircraft in the Gulf war. said the President of the Israeli Aeronautical Industry and former Commander of the Air Force in Tel Avtv
He said that the pilot less aircraft were being used for guiding US ships in their bombing of Iraqi positions in Kuwait.
Iraqi occupation troops are moving from exposed positions Into fortified Kuwait apartment bfocks. a London-based Kuwait group reported today.
Is said the Iraqis ’have fortified their new positions and sealed off windows with concrete, leaving only small openings for their weapons'
It also said the bodies of six Kuwaitis. Including a woman and all showing signs of tor ture. were found on Sunday.
Exiled Kuwalls say Iraqi troops have killed several people during searches of homes for food and communications equipment.
In another development. Syria has decided to send its troops now stationed In Saudi Arabia Into Kuwait when the
ground battle begins. n report sakl
Syria had previously maintained that its forces in Saudi Arabia would only defend that country.
According to Radio Dubai. Syria has criticised Baghdad's Scud missile attacks on Israel saying they had helped win money and sympathy for the Jewish state.
Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam addressing a meeting of Ministers, officials and trade unionists said, a settlement of the Gulf crisis was 1m-Kssible until Iraq withdrew m Kuwait.
Khaddam said that Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Israel enabled it to get weapons, money, moreal backing and international sympathy
Soviet President Gorbachev's personal envoy Yevgeny Premakov arrived in Baghdad earlv Tuesday for talks wilh President Saddam Hussein of Iraq on a Soviet diplomatic mission to end lire war.
Premakov made a stop-over in Tehran Monday, on his way to Baghdad und held talks with lh< Iranian Deputy Korean Minister Abbas Malaki.
He told newsmen after the talks that the Soviet Union supported the Iranian peace Initiative for a settlement in the Gulf.
He said the current Soviet diplomatic effort could be coordinated with steps taken by Iran.