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"Mr Solana, you told us that Iraq should declare its weapons of mass destruction. There is a theory that you have not mentioned, however, and that is if Iraq no longer has any weapons of mass destruction, what happens then? Well, I shall tell you: we will continue to say that Iraq is concealing weapons of mass destruction. And in the Security Council resolution that you have outlined to us, something is blatantly missing, and that is what happens to the sanctions if, by chance, Iraq once again agrees, as it did for many years, to allow UN observers in? The condition to lift sanctions – which is causing starvation amongst the Iraqi people – was not respected by the US and British Governments, and that is the reason, the only reason, why Iraq had enough of the observers, who, as a number of them acknowledged, behaved like spies.
In actual fact, Mr President, the war has started. The air attacks are unrelenting. On 10 October, Bassora airport was bombed three times. A massive raid was mounted against military interventions. The war has already begun. Negotiations with Iraq’s National Oil Council are the work of the US Government and we are, apparently, the only ones not to be aware of this."@en1
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