Committees: Special Political, Disarmament, Economic, Humanitarian and Environment Committees 1,2,3, 4, and 5 and Security Council

Topic: Sanctions on Iraq

Submitted by: The Syrian Arab Republic

RECOGNIZING the existence of oppressive and seemingly futile sanctions on the Republic of Iraq since 1991; and

FURTHER RECOGNIZING the crippling effects said sanctions have had upon the Iraqi economy and in turn its citizens; and

NOTING reports from the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, and World Food Program which clearly outline the devastating results that sanctions have had on Iraqis' overall health, infant mortality rates, malnutrition, and poverty rates; and

BEARING IN MIND that the original intent of the sanctions, placed on Iraq by resolution 661, was to force Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait, was achieved nearly a decade ago; and

TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION that these sanctions are maintained upon Iraq merely because five percent of the requested inspection sites were not deemed accessible to inspectors by the Iraqi government; and

FURTHER NOTES that neither the United States nor Israel, both nuclear powers, grant weapons inspectors admittance to testing or development sites in their countries; and

REQUESTS that the UN abolish this double standard by lifting sanctions on Iraq immediately.