JORDANIAN PARLIAMENT REJECTS SMART SANCTIONS

Parliament of Jordan
Amman, Jordan

13 June 2001

The Jordanian Parliament has stressed categorical rejection to what is called smart sanctions due to be imposed on Iraq for further isolation from its Arab surrounding.

In a statement released on Monday, the parliament said that these sanctions are greatly damaging for Iraq and its neighbors and undermine the national economic interests of the region's states, including Jordan.

The parliament called on the Jordanian government to refuse these sanctions and to continue working for lifting the embargo imposed on Iraq and to end the sufferings of the Iraqis and maintain cooperative relations with Iraq.

The Jordanian parliament renewed its assertion to lift the sanctions imposed on Iraq together with all forms of sanctions imposed on it in being targeted to undermine Iraq's own existence and very role.

Worthy of mention is that the US, under its new administration, allied by Britain, has proposed a new project under what is called " smart sanctions" aiming at perpetuating the siege on Iraq, in an advanced way. This project is opposed by Russia, China and France.