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Dear friends, these news do not strictly refer to Iraq, but they are related to embargo, this terrible weapon we're all fighting against. That's why I'm posting on this list the news that I've tried to translate. I've added the original statement in Italian below. Eri Garuti --- Staffan De Mistura suggested a kind of oil-for-food for Yugoslavia. On August 26th, talking at the meeting of +ACI-Comunione e Liberazione+ACI- in Rimini (Italy), the UN representant for Europe said: +ACI-Eleven millions of Serbs have the right to have water, electricity and heating. It's a humanitarian aid that can make sanctions less heavy for the civilian population.+ACI- +ACI-If this does not happen - he added -, civilians will risk in the next months a humanitarian tragedy as there hasn't even been in Kosovo, where nobody died for hunger and for the cold whether.+ACI- +ACI-11 milioni di serbi hanno il diritto di avere acqua, luce elettrica e riscaldamento nonostante le sanzioni. Si tratta di un aiuto umanitario che pu+API- rendere le sanzioni meno gravose per la popolazione civile. In caso contrario la popolazione civile rischier+AOA- nei prossimi mesi una tragedia umanitaria come non c'+AOg- stata neppure nel Kosovo, dove nessuno +AOg- morto per la fame e per il freddo.+ACI- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To be removed/added, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk, NOT the whole list. Please do not sent emails with attached files to the list *** Archived at http://linux.clare.cam.ac.uk/~saw27/casi/discuss.html ***