Saddam Says Iraq has Met its Commitments to UN Resolutions

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Saddam Says Iraq has Met its Commitments to UN Resolutions

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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said on Tuesday that Iraq has met all its commitments to the United Nations resolutions, accusing the UN of failing to do the same, the official Iraqi News Agency reported.

"Iraq has met all the commitments imposed on it by the UN Security Council, but the council has failed to fulfill the commitments stipulated in its own resolutions, especially the respect of Iraq's sovereignty and the lifting of the unjust sanctions," Saddam said during his meeting with visiting Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani.

Saddam also slammed the US war threats on Iraq, saying it is a plan not only aimed at Iraq, but the whole Arab world.

For his part, Al-Thani said all Arab countries, including Qatar,are opposed to any attack on Iraq.

US President George W. Bush, accusing Iraq of pursuing weapons of mass destruction and supporting terrorism, has repeatedly vowed to achieve a "regime change" in Iraq with all the tools at his disposal, including military actions.

Iraq has been under sweeping UN sanctions since its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the embargo will not be lifted until the UN has verified that Iraq has eliminated all of its weapons of mass destruction.

Continuous spats about alleged espionage activities between Iraq and the UN arms inspectors led to crisis in 1997 and 1998, and eventually the US-British air war against Baghdad from December 16-19, 1998.

Since then Iraq has remained defiant, arguing that its weapons of mass destruction -- nuclear, chemical and biological -- have already been dismantled and the return of the arms inspectors to Iraq is then unnecessary.

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