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Article: Iraq defies US threats to push through new UN resolution
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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Iraq defies US threats to push through new UN resolution
BAGHDAD, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- Iraq said on Tuesday it would not
yield to any US and British pressure to accept a possible new UN
Security Council resolution about its disarmament.
"To those bad people we say clearly if they imagine that the
beating of war drums would push Iraq to make concessions on its
national rights and what has been written in the UN charter and
relevant Security Council resolutions, they are wrong," said an
official spokesman in a statement following a cabinet meeting
chaired by President Saddam Hussein.
"If they imagine their evil pressure may push Iraq to accept the
unacceptable, including a new UN ...