Iraq Calls for End to U.N. Sanctions
By Niko Price, AAP Writer
March 8, 2003

"We demand that the Security Council and the world decide on ... the lifting of sanctions on Iraq in a comprehensive and complete way"

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Emboldened by the latest weapons inspectors' report, Iraq on Saturday called on the United Nations to remove crippling sanctions and ban weapons of mass destruction in the entire Middle East ˜ and eventually in the United States. Iraq resumed destroying banned Al Samoud 2 missiles under U.N. supervision Saturday after taking a day off, crushing six more in a process that chief inspector Hans Blix called a "substantial measure of disarmament." In the past week, Iraq has destroyed 40 of its 100 Al Samoud 2 missiles, prohibited by the United Nations because some tests indicated they could fly farther than a U.N.-imposed limit of 93 miles. It also has been destroying equipment used to make them.

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