FAS | News | Iraq | 2001 |||| Index | Search |

January 2001

• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Vol. 4, No. 4, 26 January 2001 -- Uday's Kuwait Remarks Provoke Arab Response; Iraq Negotiates Hajj Increase; Turkey-Iraq Rail Link To Reopen This Month; Second UAE Ship To Travel Between UAE And Iraq; Saddam Praises Hanoi For Its Longstanding Friendship; Iraq To Sign Free-Trade Agreement With Syria; Iraq-Based Group Claims Credit For Tehran Attack; IAEA Reports No Irregularities In Iraq; Iraq-Syria Pipeline To Be Under Oil-For-Food Program; Iraqi Opposition Group Proposes New National Front; Iraqi Writer Says Saudi Arabia In Crisis; Iraqi Minister Discusses Radiation Security In Moscow; Baghdad To Replace Currency In Kurdistan; PUK, KDP Meet To Discuss PKK; Talabani Appoints New PM
• U.S. Department of State on Iraqi Underspending, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 26 January 2001 -- Regime fails to spend on behalf of Iraqi people
• Iraq agrees to receive UN team examining funds to upgrade oil industry, UN News, 25 January 2001 -- The Government of Iraq has agreed to the sending of a United Nations team of experts to examine ways of disbursing funds to upgrade the country's oil industry, a UN spokesman announced today.
• State Department Noon Briefing - Iraq, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 24 January 2001 -- Q: Change of subject? Yesterday I asked you an assassination team from Iraq crossing into Turkey, but you didn't say anything about that. Unfortunately today, a terrorist attacked and killed six Turkish security officials, including the chief of police in the city of Diyabakir in southeastern Turkey.
• Pentagon Questions Use of Iraqi Facilities , American Forces Press Service, 23 January 2001 -- The Defense Department is keeping a wary eye on some rebuilt factories outside Baghdad, Iraq, that once produced material suitable for chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction, officials said.
• State Department Noon Briefing - Iraq, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 23 January 2001 -- Q: Change of subject? Several news organizations have just discovered that there is oil flowing down the Syrian pipeline. That has been discussed here several weeks - many weeks ago. I wondered has the new administration considered how it is going to handle this leakage, this violation of sanctions?
• US / Iraq, Voice of America, 22 January 2001 -- The new Bush administration is acting quickly to send a warning to Iraq that military action remains an option if Baghdad threatens its neighbors with new claims to Kuwait or takes other provocative actions.
• 20-23 January 2001: The IAEA inspected non-weapons grade fissile material, which are under IAEA safeguards, according to IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei. The presence of the material was verified and that Iraq provided the inspectors with "necessary cooperation" and allowed sufficient access to "effectively and efficiently" conduct their investigation. (March 2001 Arms Control Association )
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Vol. 4, No. 3, 19 January 2001 -- 'Uday Wants Kuwait Off The Map; Are Cairo And Baghdad About To Exchange Envoys? Turkish Foreign Minister On Ties With Iraq; Iran Says Iraq Violating 1988 Ceasefire; India Ready To Help In Reconstruction of Iraq; Algeria Pledges Solidarity With Iraq; Iraqi VP Receives Tatarstan Prime Minister; Moscow Invites Ramadan To Russia; Iraq Opens Fifth Internet Center; Royal Dutch/Shell In Talks With Iraq; Kurds Form Pro-Ba'th Political Party; KDP Central Committee Condemns Arabization; Barzani Not Going To Ankara; Talabani Meets With Iranian Delegation; Turkish-U.S. Deal To Create 'Turkmen Republic'
• As Turkey renews Iraq ties, Operation Northern Watch's future is cloudy, Stars and Stripes, 19 January 2001 -- Approaching the 10-year mark, Operation Northern Watch's watch may be winding down - and there are signs that the United Nations-mandated, no-fly mission is wearing out its welcome in Turkey.
• Egypt, Iraq Sign Free Trade Zone Agreement, People's Daily, 18 January 2001 -- Egypt and Iraq Thursday signed a protocol that would establish a free trade zone between the two countries, the state-run Middle East News Agency reported.
• United Nations says Iraq has been slow to contract humanitarian supplies, UN News, 18 January 2001 -- The head of the United Nations humanitarian programme for Iraq has expressed concern at the "unacceptably slow" rate of contracting of humanitarian supplies by the Iraqi Government under phase VIII of the oil-for-food scheme.
• Iraq / Arab React, Voice of America, 18 January 2001 -- Kuwait has criticized remarks by Iraqi officials on the 10th anniversary of the Gulf War and has lodged protests with the United Nations and the Arab League.
• Rice Iraq, Voice of America, 17 January 2001 -- The woman who takes over Saturday as America's new national security advisor says the incoming Bush administration will face a challenge trying to restore the collapsing sanctions imposed by the United Nations against Iraq.
• Powell/Iraq, Voice of America, 17 January 2001 -- Retired General Colin Powell says the new Bush administration, which he will serve as Secretary of State, will try to keep up pressure on Iraq.
• Bush Iraq Policy, Voice of America, 17 January 2001 -- President-elect George W.
• Iraq / Gulf War Anniversary, Voice of America, 17 January 2001 -- Iraq's President Saddam Hussein has given a defiant speech to mark the tenth anniversary of the start of the Gulf War.
• Clinton Sends Report on Iraq to Congress, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 17 January 2001 -- On Tuesday, January 9, President Clinton signed and transmitted to Congress a report on the provision of assistance to the Iraqi opposition, pursuant to Section 575 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Relating Programs Appropriation Act of FY 2001 (P.L. 106-429). The report from the President to Congress was mandated under this legislation.
• Revenue loss tops $1 billion as Iraq slows exports under UN's oil-for-food scheme, UN News, 16 January 2001 -- Iraqi oil exports under the United Nations' oil-for-food programme continue to register below average figures, resulting in a loss of $1 billion in revenue during the month of December and an additional estimated loss of $380 million in the first 10 days of January, according to the latest figures issued today by the UN Office of the Iraq Programme, which administers the scheme.
• Gulf War Anniversary, Voice of America, 16 January 2001 -- Ten-years ago, in the early morning hours of January 17th, a coalition of Arab and Western forces launched operation Desert Storm, the military offensive aimed at driving Iraq from Kuwait, which it had occupied six-months before.
• Iraq- U-S Planes, Voice of America, 14 January 2001 -- Two flights carrying U-S activists opposed to international sanctions against Iraq have arrived in Baghdad.
• RFE/RL IRAQ REPORT, Vol. 4, No. 2, 12 January 2001 -- Saddam Boosts Palestinian Cause On Army Day; Moscow Condemns 'Illegal Bombing' of Iraq; 'Uday Says Russians 'Front' For U.S., British Firms; Uae Minister Says Saddam Will Fall After Sanctions; Is Iraqi-Iranian Detente Collapsing?; Turkey Dispatches Ambassador To Iraq; Iraqi Boeing 747 Goes Into Domestic Service; Iranian Pilgrims Visit Shiite Shrines In Iraq; Saddam's Inner Circle Described; Palestinian Delegation In Baghdad Talabani, Barzani Meet On Kdp Territory Talabani Invited To Turkey For Talks
• Moscow Again Calls For Bombing Halt In Iraq, RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 5, No. 7, Part I, 11 January 2001 -- The Russian Foreign Ministry on 10 January issued a statement repeating Moscow's call for the United States and Great Britain to end the bombing of Iraq
• Iraq's UN-administered oil sales slow in late December, early January, UN News, 09 January 2001 -- Iraqi petroleum exports under the United Nations oil-for-food programme continued to be slow during the first week of 2001, according to the latest statistics released today by the UN office administering the sales.
• Britain / Iraq, Voice of America, 08 January 2001 -- A British newspaper reports that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government will propose to the incoming Bush administration in the United States that patrols over Iraq's southern no-fly zone be halted.
• Annan says talks with Iraqi officials, expected this week, will be delayed, UN News, 08 January 2001 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that talks scheduled this week with officials from the Iraqi Government would likely be delayed until next month.
• Iraq/Saddam, Voice of America, 06 January 2001 -- For the third time this week, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has appeared on state-run television, dispelling opposition rumors that he had suffered a stroke.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Vol. 4, No. 1, 5 January 2001 -- Report of Saddam Husseyn's Demise; Uday Calls For Moves Toward Multiparty Democracy; Is Iraq Sowing Ethnic Unrest In Iranian Province?; Iraqi Minister Says Iraq Can 'Destroy' Israel; Moscow Continues To Urge Lifting Sanctions; GCC To Explain Position On Iraq To Arab States; Iraq Seeks To Expand Trade With Iran; Iraq-Turkey Rail Link To Open; Syria Seeks Strong Military, Political Links With Iraq; Iraq-India Wheat Deal Under Way - But Big Firms Stay Away; Egypt Air To Resume Regular Flights To Iraq; PUK Confirms Turkish Forces In Iraqi Kurdistan
• Russia's UN Envoy Calls For Lifting Sanctions On Iraq, RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 5, No. 2, Part I, 4 January 2001 -- Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Sergei Lavrov told ITAR-TASS on 3 January that the humanitarian situation in Iraq could be radically improved by lifting sanctions against Baghdad

FAS | News | Iraq | 2001 |||| Index | Search |