Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Iraq Urges U.N. to End Sanctions...
UNITED NATIONS--Iraq pleaded yesterday for the United Nations to lift trade sanctions that Iraq contends have contributed to the deaths of thousands of people by cutting off essential food and medicine...
Saddam Hussein's top diplomat, Tariq Aziz, insisted Iraq had met the most important of its obligations under Gulf War cease-fire terms and accused some nations of keeping sanctions in place for purely political reasons...
Once the crisis erupted, Baker reacted quickly and efficiently. His skills as negotiator and tactician proved essential in putting together the anti- Saddam alliance. But when Kuwait was liberated, the Administration's feeble political planning for the war's aftermath was laid bare. Concerned that a weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether...
...Economic and Agricultural Affairs Robert Zoellick; and Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Margaret Tutwiler. Career types especially resent Baker's decision to replace Thomas Pickering as the U.S. representative to the United Nations. A seasoned and effective diplomat, Pickering held the Security Council in line through 12 anti-Iraq resolutions during the six months leading up to the gulf war. At the height of the gulf crisis last year, someone from the State Department -- presumably under instruction from higher up -- called the U.S. mission at the U.N. demanding to know why Pickering's picture had been on the front page...