IRAQ: BAGHDAD: SADDAM HUSSEIN SPEECH ON UN SANCTIONS

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Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said on Saturday that he would suspend cooperation with  U-N weapons inspectors if U-N sanctions against Iraq are not lifted.

In a speech marking the seventh anniversary of the Gulf War, Saddam said he would  follow recommendations made by Iraq's National Assembly unless the sanctions  imposed on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in 1990 are removed.

Iraq's National Assembly recommended that Saddam suspend all cooperation with U-N  weapons inspectors if they don't finish their disarmament activities in Iraq within six  months from November 20th.

The Security Council has ordered Iraq to destroy its nuclear, chemical and biological  weapons as a condition for ending the 1991 Gulf War.

U-N officials have reported progress in eliminating the first two, but suspect that Iraq is  holding back significant information on biological weapons.

But Saddam, dressed in a green military uniform, said if the inspections do not come to  an end, Iraq is ready to \"bear the responsibilities for such a position.\"

\"There is no way and no alternative to that course,\" he said.

Saddam criticized the United States for its \"aggressive policies toward Iraq\" and  described Washington as \"an arrogant, blind power which sees nothing but its narrow  interests.\"

He urged the Clinton administration to reconsider its policies toward Iraq and bring  about an end to the sanctions.

\"They should not be disillusioned again that they can achieve now what they have failed  to achieve by means of deception and intimidation through military means because they  have already tested that on more than one occasion,\" he said

Iraq has long been concerned by what it believes is Washington's determination to keep  sanctions in place even after Iraq has complied with the U-N resolutions on  disarmament.

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\"If the (U-N) Security Council does not adopt the decision to meet its obligations  towards the country of Iraq .. Iraq and its people are determined to adopt a stand  parallel to a recommendation by representatives of its people in its National Assembly,\"  SUPER CAPTION:  Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq

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IRAQ: BAGHDAD: SADDAM HUSSEIN SPEECH ON UN SANCTIONS