Spanish Campaign for Lifting the Sanctions on Iraq
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A 100-member Spanish delegation of organizational and institutional representatives will travel to Iraq in order to express their opposition to the sanctions and the threat of a new military intervention against the country CSCAweb / SCLSI, 2nd January, 2002 A 100-member Spanish delegation of organizational and institutional representatives will travel to Iraq in order to express their opposition to the sanctions and the threat of a new military intervention against the country A hundred members of Spanish organizations and institutional representatives will depart from Madrid to Amman on Wednesday, January 2nd, and then proceed to Baghdad. The delegation's trip is part of a new initiative launched by the Spanish Campaign for Lifting the Sanctions on Iraq (SCLSI), promoted by the Arab Cause Solidarity Committee since 1991. The group will return to Madrid on Saturday, January 12th. Several SCLSI delegations had previously visited Iraq (in January 1999 and 2000, as well as December 2000, in what was the first direct flight Madrid-Baghdad-Madrid after the sanctions came into being). The delegation will express its solidarity with the Iraqi people and demand an end to the economic sanctions that were put into effect on August, 1990 and have killed one and a half million Iraqi citizens. At the same time, the delegation's aim is to condemn the threats that point to a new US-sponsored military intervention against Iraq. Besides condemning a decade of economic sanctions and the recent threats calling for a new military intervention against the country, members of the delegation will formally hand over to Iraqi representatives all the educational materials collected from May 2000 until April 2001 throughout Spain (during the course of a State-wide campaign in which several tons of education material, as well as 2 million pencils, were collected). As it occurred in previous years, the program will include
meetings and visits organized by sectors in order for the members
of the delegation to get better acquainted with the humanitarian
situation in Iraq and the effects of the sanctions. The activities
will include a meeting with Tun Myat, UN Humanitarian Aid Coordinator
in Iraq. The delegation will also visit Basra, where it will
receive information about the effects of depleted uranium. |
