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July 2001

• Responding to Baghdad charges, head of UN Iraq Programme defends its work, UN News, 13 July 2001 -- Responding to charges put forward by Baghdad, the Executive Director of the United Nations Iraq Programme has defended its record on humanitarian issues.
• Iraq: Rebuff of Revised Sanctions Regime Seen As U.S. Policy Setback, Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 13 July 2001 -- Editorialists in the Middle East, Europe, Vietnam and Mexico saw the UN Security Council's failure to approve revised import controls on Iraq as a "severe setback" and a "painful blow" to the U.S. administration. Russia, in refusing to do more than extend the current oil-for-food program, was portrayed as reasserting itself internationally, sending a message to the West that it was "starting to think of its own interests." In the Middle East, sanction foes sarcastically railed against both "smart" and "dumb" sanctions and celebrated an Iraqi "victory". Only in Kuwait was there notable editorial support for the U.S./UK initiative. Writers in Europe and the Middle East predicted that the Bush administration would fail to garner Arab support for any Iraq initiatives as long as America pursued policies that a Jordanian paper characterized as "lenient and supportive of Israel."
• Iraq/Oil, Voice of America, 10 July 2001 -- Iraq has once again begun pumping oil for export after a five-week dispute with the United Nations over international sanctions.

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