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European Plane in Baghdad to Protest U.N. EmbargoAn airplane carrying three persons from France and Italy landed at the Al-Rashed military airport in Baghdad at 19:45 p.m. local time (1645 GMT), to protest the decade- long U.N. embargo imposed on Iraq.At the airport, Jean-Marie Benjamin, head of the delegation, read a declaration to the local and foreign media who have been waiting for more than seven hours. In the declaration, Benjamin condemned the embargo and called for an immediate lifting of the sanctions. The three-member delegation got no prior permission from the U. N., who imposed the devastating embargo on Iraq since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Answering a question from Xinhua, Benjamin said that the delegation will stay in Iraq for two or three days, and they have no immediate schedule of their activities here. This is the second European airplane arriving in Iraq since 1990. Three years ago, British Member of Parliament George Galloway arrived here by plane to protest the U.N. sanctions.
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