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UN for further keeping of aid workers in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS, June 24: The United Nations is prodding Saddam Husein's government to allow the continued presence of 1,000 humanitarian aid workers In Iraq, UN diplomats said Tuesday, reports AP.
An agreement allowing the stationing of the UN aid workers expires al the end of this month. The United Nations sent Baghdad a letter in May requesting an extension, said UN spokeswoman Nadia Younes.
Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 15-natlon Security Council may have lo prod Iraq into extending the agreement, although they said Iraq is expected to cooperate.
The aid workers from agencies such as the World Food Programme UNICEF and the World Health Organisation are helping Kurds in the north suffering from an economic embargo Imposed by Baghdad, as well as Shl'lite Muslims in the south.
Iraqi officials and ihe Iraqi media have stepped upverbal attacks on Ihe United Stales and Its allies In recent days, blaming them for hardships that Iraqis arc suffering at least In pari because of UN-Imposed sanctions.
Health officials said 41,000 Iraqis. 14.Q00 of them children under five years of age. died in the first four months of this year because of severe
shortages of food and medicines.
UN experts said in May that this year’s harvest could be 25 to 30 per cent lower than last year. Iraqi figures put the 1991 wheat harvest at 525,000 tons, compared with 1.19 million tons In 1990.
Saddam was quoted Tuesday as saying UN sanctions were taking a heavy toll on his countrymen.
"We are truly besieged in an effort to extinguish the light In our eyes and In our consciences." the Iraqi News Agency quoted Saddam as saying. He added that Iraqis should offer "more sacrifices In order to confront the forces of Injustice, tyranny and aggression."
Saddam's remarks came one day after Iraqi and UN officials con'cludcd talks in Vienna aimed al breaking a deadlock over efforts lo ease the sanctions, imposed in August 1990 after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Baghdad has rejected UN insistence that It monitor Baghdad's oil exports and financial dealings, saying this would infringe on Iraqt sovereignty.
But on Monday. UN officials said the two sides had reached a tentative agreement on a package which would go to the Security Council, which must approve any oil exports by Iraq.