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"Mr President, the Iraqi people are certainly going through the darkest night they can possibly have experienced. The appropriate health statistics are the ones published by the World Health Organisation. The countries’ statistical profiles for the World Health Organisation Eastern Mediterranean region, including Iraq, were recently published. They are the nationally approved figures officially released by WHO.
These most sensitive health indicators show that Iraq is at the lowest possible level in the table after Afghanistan, Djibouti and Somalia, as the least developed country in the region. This is the country which, per capita, has the capacity to be the richest in the world. I can however prove that it is Saddam Hussein’s regime, the government of this rogue state, which is fully responsible for the health of those children. Next door in the Islamic Republic of Iran are 95 000 Iraqi refugees – proportionately a fraction of the funds that have gone into Iraq have been spent on these children and these mothers;
35 000 of them are under five years old; yet the health of those children consistently improved, and now matches the health of those of the host nation of Iran and the health of western nations almost completely. 92% of all the children born in those camps have an acceptable weight while that is not achievable in Iraq. The fault lies with the government of Iraq."@en1
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