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According to Alan Cowell in the New York Times (Thursday, Sept 16, page A9), the 5 permanent members of the security council are making "progress toward a deal to ease sanctions on Iraq in exchange for Baghdad's submission to a new system of weapons inspections." The article suggests that Washington is softening its stance on sanctions. Extract from the article: "The diplomats here said it was agreed in today's meeting that a new inspection body would need a less confrontational profile than the [UNSCOM] commission. But it remained unclear how far they had progressed toward settling long-running disagreements among themselves over the conditions and timing for easing trade restrictions. Supported by Britain, the United States was said to have argued that sanctions could only be eased after Iraq had completed a trial period of compliance with a new inspection system. The officials have not yet established the duration of any suspension sanctions or conditions for re-imposing them." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ***