VOL. XXXVII

NO. 5

1-NOVEMBER-1993

Iraq

US-TurkishStatement Reaffirms Maintenance Of Sanctions Against Iraq

Efforts by theTurkish Government to persuade the western powers to ease the economic sanctionsagainst Iraq owing to their harmful impact on the Turkish economy have evidentlyfallen on deaf ears in Washington. A joint statement issued on 22 October afterthe meeting in Washington between President Bill Clinton and Turkish PrimeMinister Tansu Ciller stated that the sanctions against Iraq should...