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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7913

1 March 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/iraq
During EP hearing on Iraq, westerners call for lifting of sanctions, while Iraqi opposition are against

Brussels, 28/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The question of the lifting of sanctions against Iraq was at the centre of the hearing on "Iraq and the international community", organised this week in Brussels by the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. While western experts generally felt that the embargo is counterproductive, representatives of the Iraqi opposition invited the parliamentarians to show caution over this issue, underlining that the lifting of the embargo strengthened the...

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