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Original Post Date: 2002-08-05 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 8/5/2002 12:49:15 PM
SA issues blunt warning to USA regarding Iraq
[Note: I have long said that the New South Africa (which the USA played a major role in creating), is actually not a friend of either the USA nor the West. Here we see them showing their true colours. Jan]
Against a backdrop of rising tension in the Middle East, South Africa has warned against a United States attack on Iraq, predicting that such an assault would inflame tensions and threaten global stability.
“Any attack on Iraq would exacerbate the volatile situation in the region,” deputy minister of foreign affairs Aziz Pahad told a news briefing in Pretoria on Sunday.
“It would open a Pandora’s box and could be disastrous for all of us.”
On Monday, Pahad leaves for Britain and France where he is to discuss the latest developments with his counterparts.
French Foreign minister Dominique de Villepin has just returned from a visit to Israel and Palestine.
Pahad spoke amid growing speculation that US President George Bush was laying the ground for a US attack on Iraq to remove President Saddam Hussein from power. It is nine years since his father, George Bush senior, failed in the same objective in the Gulf War.
The Guardian of London reports that there have been indicators of a campaign against Iraq.
Among these signs is that manufacturers of cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions in the US have been working overtime to replace the weapons that were expended in Afghanistan.
The US military transport fleet of trucks has been called in for rapid servicing. A freight train loaded with military trucks, painted for desert service, passed through Chicago last week.
Most tellingly, discreet inquiries have been made about the availability of tankers to transport fuel required for war.
The US probably would go to war with Iraq, Joseph Biden, the chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Sunday. The timing was uncertain, but he believed force must be used to oust Saddam.
Biden, a Democrat, led hearings last week that highlighted the gravity of the threat posed by the Iraqi president and the difficulty of replacing him with stable leadership.
Other lawmakers, too, spoke supportively of Bush’s goal of removing Saddam.
But Democrats in particular said the administration must do far more to convince Americans, allies and Iraq’s neighbours that force was necessary.
They also said Bush must seek congressional approval if he decided on war.
Pahad said he hoped the differences between the US and Iraq would be negotiated and that Baghdad would allow United Nations inspectors into the country to inspect chemical and nuclear installations.
He noted that Iraq had recently made a statement laying down the circumstances in which it was prepared to accept UN inspectors. Pahad conceded that the conditions might not satisfy all parties.
He said South Africa was deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation that Iraqis continued to wrestle with nine years after US and allied bombing of their country.
“We are opposed to bombings,” he said.
Pahad said it was for the Iraqi people alone to decide what government they wanted. “It is for the Iraqi people to change the regime if they don’t like it.”
Turning to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Pahad said the cycle of violence and suicide bombings had reached unprecedented levels.
The African Union had decided to form a committee to monitor developments in the Middle East, Pahad said. His visit was to review initiatives, get the parties back to the negotiating table and “consolidate our thinking on the Middle East”.
Pahad said the formation of the “quartet” – the UN, European Union, Russia and US – was a “step in the right direction” because it moved matters beyond the US and achieved wider international involvement.
The problem in the Middle East was not the absence of a solution but how to implement the plans on the table while retaliatory violence prevailed.
The “100-day” plan to transform the Palestinian Authority had merit but could not be implemented in the current climate.
Pahad said South Africa had condemned the “extra-judicial” killing of a leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Gaza two weeks ago because it feared it would lead to the sort of violent retaliation that had unfolded since with the bombing of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem last week and the blowing up of a bus in northern Israel on Sunday.
Author: John Battersby
Source: IOL.CO.ZA
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=6&art…br>