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Sanctions now a vital lever : Hurd

Iraq, with Saddam in power, can’t join international community’
SUNNINODALE (ENGLAND). Mar 3: BriHah Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said on Friday Iraq could not return to the community of nations while Presldcnl Sad dam Hussein remained tn power, reports Reuter.
I Ie said it was not up to the Allies to prescribe who should govern Iraq and Saddam could nol be personally brought lo account for atrocities commit ted by his grwemmenl.
"But Iraq cannot expect lo return to the community of nations while it has a dehn-quent regime." Hurd suld In a speech at Sunningdalc. South ern England
Iraq needs a leadership which will respect her com mllments as a member of the Lulled Nations and the Arab league
He said he had no confirms Won of a report in the Flench newspaper le Monde saying Saddam as seeking asylum In Algeria
If he were to leave power or be driven from power then il would be certainly much easier lo sei lie the peace and settle Iraq * place In the future, he
Hurd said he was encouraged that Allied and military commanders were lo meet near Basra in Southern Iraq Saturday to discuss the ceasefire
He said sanctions had lo be ttkunlaincd lo ensure Baghdad mcel allied demands.
"Sanctions should not be lifted prematurely or lightly The Iraqis cannot begin to rebuild their country 1n earnest without oil revenues
and without access lo foreign technology." he said
Sanctions are now. In these circumstances, a vital lever 1n ensuring Iraq's full compliance with her Interna t tonal obligations.
But Hurd added that the in ternational community would have lo consider sending hit manitarian aid to Iraq at an, early stage
UN Secretary General Javier Perez De Cuellar said earlier on French television Ite opposed maintaining sanctions 11 their alm was to overthrow Saddam.
Another report says Iraq's UN Ambassador Abdul Al An bar! denied on Friday that President Saddam Hussein was seeking asylum In Algeria
"I hate to be impolite to anyone, certainly not lo Jour-
nalists. but frankly this is a silly question.' he said when asked about a report from Algiers in the French newspaper Le Monde that Saddam had decided l step down and had asked I Im* Algerian authorities for asylum
Asked If he were denying the report Anburi replied Of
speaking to reporters after confomng with Security Council Presldcnl Peter Hohenfell ner of Austria, he said resolu lion being discussed privately among council members should provide for a ceasefire.
"After all. we have met all the requirements of the Seen rlty Council. The fighting has stopped and Iraq has com plcted Hs withdrawal from Kwualt So I don't why we don l have a ceasefire "
Council members are privately discussing a Untied States draft demanding that Iraq implement provisions of 12 council resolutions that Baghdad says It fully accepts and carry out other measures. Including the Immediate return of prisoners of war and detainees. But It does not pro vkie for turning and Informal truce declared by the Allied coalition since Thursday tnto a formal ceasefire.
Other sources said the So-vkl Union and China had ob-lections to key provisions of the draft.
Anbari said a meeting be-
tary leaders scheduled for Sat
urday lo discuss details of a ceasefire would be held some where near the southern Iraq city of Basra
He said he assumed Iraq would be represented by an officer of s'milar rank to General Normanschwarzkopf. the Allied i m«MMid<-r win will head the oahlkai team
Kuwaiti Ambassador Mohammad Abulhusan. who saw the council President after An bart emerged, confirmed thal the military teams would mre
Inside the Iraqi territories, tn the southern part of Basra, maybe."
He said Iraq should provide a timetable lor the release of Allied Prisoners of War and civilian detainees. They in eluded some 22.000 ctvlhan Kuwaitis and about ft 600 Kuwaiti Prisoners of wars, he added.
Another report adds: The Foreign Ministry said on Sal urday it had removed the ac cred nation of a French Journalist who reported that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had asked Algeria for asylum
The Ministry said Georges Marion was qullty of dlstn for mation and said It had deckled with great regret" to wltltdraw his accreditation.
In a report In Le Monde on Friday Marlon said Saddam had decided to step down and had asked the authorities in Algiers for asylum
The Algerian Foreign Ministry denied the report as a journalist a fable'.
No one was immediately available at Le Monde's Paris headquarters to commtnl on the withdrawal of Marion's accreditation.