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 WWW.Iraq.net WWW.Iraq4u.com  MUSIC http://www.iraq.net/pix/midi/foug.mid http://www.iraq.net/pix/midi/gahwa.mid http://www.iraq.net/pix/midi/forgot.mid http://www.iraq.net/pix/midi/shlonak.mid http://www.iraq.net/pix/midi/orfa.mid http://www.iraq.net/pix/midi/iraqi.mid http://www.iraq.net/pix/midi/dance.mid  PICTURES http://www.iraq.net/pics/History/ http://www.iraq.net/pics/attractions/ http://www.iraq.net/pics/Varieties/ http://www.iraq.net/pics/Modern/ http://www.iraq.net/pics/1001/ http://www.iraq.net/pics/daily/ http://www.iraq.net/pics/Mesopotamian/  ARABIC NEWS http://www.alittihad.co.ae/ http://www.arabia.com/Addustour/ http://www.accessme.com/Al-Ra'i/ http://www.alquds.com/ http://www.al-ayyam.com/ http://al-ayyam-yemen.com/ http://tahrir.net/Al-Gomhuria/ http://www.ahram.org.eg/ http://tahrir.net/Al-Messa/ http://www.alarab.co.uk/ http://www.arabian.net/alayam/ http://www.raya.com/  LIVE NEWS http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arabic/ http://www.Oman-tv.gov.om/ http://www.RadioTunis.com/ http://anaradio.com SANCTIONS List of prohibited items into Iraq by Elias Davidsson 22 December 1997 Here are some of the products which the Security Council of the United Nations considers that the Iraqi civilian population are not entitled to, because they are not considered as full human beings. Your country, by special regulations that are not widely known in your country, endorses and enforces this collective punishment of the Iraqi population. The list includes mainly consumer products which are now available to the world's population without any restriction. It must be added that in order to impoverish Iraq and make its population dependent upon foreign imports, raw materials, machines and tools for industry and agriculture are also prohibited by the United Nations, unless the Iraqi government can prove, on a case by case base, that a specific consignment is urgently required for 'humanitarian' needs. I urge readers of this list to imagine themselves being denied all the following products for a period of more than 7 years. This should give a small idea of what we are doing to the Iraqis. If there is any mistake in the list or any important consumer product category missing, please inform me (Elias Davidsson, email: edavid@itn.is). List of Items: Accumulators Adhesive paper Aluminium foil AM-FM receivers Ambulances Amplifiers Answering machines Armored cable Ashtrays Auto polish Axes Bags Baking soda Balls (for children, for sport) Baskets Bath brushes Batteries Battery chargers Beads Bearings Bed lamps Belts Benches Bicycles Books (all categories included) Bottles Bowls Boxes Brass Broilers Busses Calculators Cameras Candles Candlesticks Canvas (yes, there are also painters in Iraq, didn't you know ?) Carpets Cars Carts Carving knives Cellophane Chairs Chalk Chess boards Chiffon Children's wear Chisels Clocks Cloth Clutches Coats Coaxial cable Cogs Coils Colors for painting Combs Compressors (for cooling equipment) (Iraq is a hot country) Computers and computer supplies Copper Cupboards Cups Desk lamps Desks Detergents Dictaphones Dishware Dishwashers Dolls Doorknobs Doormats Drawing knives Dresses Drills Dryers Dustcloths Dyes Dynamos Easels Electric cookers Electric cords Envelopes Eyeglasses Fabrics Fans Fax machines Fibers Files Filing cabinets Filing cards Films Filters Flashlights Flowerpots Forks Fountain pens Furniture polish Fuses Gas burners Gauges Generators Girdles Glass Glue Gowns Grills Grindstone Hairpins Hammers Handkerchiefs Hats Headlights Headphones Hearing aids Hedge trimmers Helmets Hoes Hooks Hookup wires Hoses Hydraulic jacks Ink (read: The prohibition on writing) Ink cartridges Insulator strips Interruptors Jackets Jacks Joints Jumpers Kettles Knives Lamp shades Lathes Lawn mowers Leather Levers Light bulbs Light meters Lime Magazines (including scientific and medical journals) Magnesium Magnets Masonite Mastic Matches Measurings equipment Mica Microfiche Microphones Microscopes Mirrors Mops Motorbikes Motors Mufflers Mugs Music cassettes Music CDs Musical instruments Nail brushes Nail files Napkins Notebooks Oil cans Oil gauges Oil lamps Oscillators Packaging materials Pails Painters' brushes Paints Pans Paper clips Paper for printing Paper for wrapping Paper for writing Pens Percolators Pesticides Photocopiers Photometers Pincers Pincettes Pins Plastics Plates Plexiglas Pliers Plugs Plywood Porcelain Pots Potties Press drills Pressure cookers Printing equipment Pulleys Putty Radiators for cars Razor blades Razors Reels Relays Riveters Roasters Rubber Rugs Rulers Sandals Sandpaper Saucers Saws Scales Scoreboards Screws Seals Seats Shampoo Sheers Shelves Shirts Shock absorbers Shoe polish Shoes Shoppint carts Shovels Silicon Silver polish Skirts Soap Soap pads Sockets Socks Solder Soldering irons Spark plugs Spatulas Sponges Spoons Stamps Staplers Starters Stoves Straps Suits Sun hats Swimming suits Switches Tables Tacks Tags Telephone cables Telephones Tents Thermomethers Threads Timber Timers Tin Tire pumps Tissue paper Toasters Toilet paper (not considered medicines) Tongs Toothbrushes Toothpicks Towels Toys (read: UN punishment of children) Tractors Transformers Trash cans Tripods Troughs Trousers Trowels Trucks Trunks TV sets Typewriters Vacuum cleaners Valves Vans Vaseline Vases Venetian blinds Ventilators Videotapes Voltage regulators Waffle irons Wagons Wallets Wallpaper Washing machines Wastepaper baskets Watches Water pumps Wax Welders Wheelbarrows Wheels Window shades Wood Wool Wrenches Zoom lenses The UN Sanctions Committee has not issued any comprehensive list of prohibited products, as such a list would include millions of articles. Instead the Sanctions Committee evaluates applications for exporting goods to Iraq on the base of Security Council Resolutions which allow foodstuffs, medicines and products for essential civilian needs. Anything not deemed 'essential' by the members of the Sanctions Committee is denied to the Iraqi population. The Committee has the sole discretion in determining what is essential for every Iraqi. Decisions by the Committee are made behind closed doors. Any one Committee member may veto a permission. Applications for the export of items to Iraq must be made by the potential exporter to the authorities of individual UN member states who then forward the application to the UN Sanctions Committe in New York. The Committee will then assess the qualification of the application, that is whether it is food, medicine or an 'essential civilian need', determine that the Iraqi government has also endorsed the transaction, check prices and delivery conditions, and if everything is OK, forward its approval to the authorities of the country where the application came from. The authorities then inform the applicant. Only then is it possible to ship the items. Before being sent, public officials must check that the items concur in quality and quantity to the document approved by the Sanctions Committee. Any discrepancy results in the delaying the shipment. It must be added that the quantity of food and medicines "allowed" to Iraq is not more than about a third of what was imported to Iraq before the onset of the sanctions. In other words, the United Nations expect Iraqis to live with less than half the food and medicine intake they had at the time when Saddam Hussein ruled without UN intervention. The lawyers of the Security Council members have studied carefully the requirements of international humanitarian law. By designing into the sanctions regime 'humanitarian exceptions' as provided by the 'food-for-oil' deal, the members of the Security Council attempt to preempt charges of causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis by starvation and health hazards. By providing the very minimum for physical subsistence to the Iraqi population, lives are not anymore expended by the thousands. This is a step forward away from sheer genocide. |
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