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Iraqi Issue

  * The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states have insisted on Iraq's implementation of all UN resolutions related to its invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said Monday.

  On the GCC foreign ministers' meeting held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Sabah said the GCC members have taken a joint stand strongly rejecting threats by the Iraqi regime, particularly those against Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

  *Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vladimir Lakhmanin called for reforming UNSCOM's weapon inspection work.

  He said that "We have repeatedly noted in the past that Butler's activity had discredited the Special Commission."

  *An American F-16 fighter plane patrolling the northern no-fly zone over Iraq fired at a ground radar facility, Pentagon spokesman Richard Bridges said, adding that the plane and crew returned safely to their base in Turkey.

  The radar posed a threat to coalition forces in the area, he said.

  It is the third time in two days that US planes have targeted Iraqi military installations.

  *UNSCOM Chairman Richard Butler said on Monday that the weapons work would not stop and the UNSCOM was not "dead" and he would not resign.

  

WorldNews 1999-01-13 Page6

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