Iraq to Keep on Battling Against Sanctions: SaddamPresident Saddam Hussein on Monday vowed that Iraq will keep on battling against the decade-old United Nations embargo as it has caused great suffering to the Iraqi people.During a meeting with visiting Algerian parliament speaker Abdul Qader Bin Saleh on Monday, Saddam also urged Arab governments to unite to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation. Saddam has expressed support to the ongoing Palestinian intifada, or uprising, against Israeli occupation. More than 400 Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces since the violence erupted over six months ago. For his part, the Algerian parliament speaker expressed Algeria's solidarity with Iraq and stressed the importance of bilateral relations, the official INA news agency reported. Saleh, heading a 160-member delegation, arrived in Baghdad by plane on Sunday for a four-day visit. Algeria, as a fellow Arab country, has been calling on the UN.as well as the Arab League for lifting the sanctions against Iraq in order to end the suffering of the Iraqi people. Iraq has been under the sanctions since it invaded neighboring Kuwait in 1990. Baghdad says that the sanctions have claimed the lives of more than 1.4 million Iraqi people. |
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