VOL. XLII

No. 06

8-February-1999

IRAQ

Security Council Consensus On New Approach To Iraqi Crisis;Baghdad Rejects Initiative

The UN Security Council, after serious deadlock followingthe US/UK air strikes in mid-December, reached agreement on 30 January on a newframework to approach the Iraqi crisis. The new process calls for the creationof three panels to assess disarmament, humanitarian concerns, and outstandingissues stemming from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, such as compensationfor...