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Article: `Holy alliance' tries to wreck birth-control conference
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 31, 1994
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THE United Nations' population conference has succeeded in
forging even stranger alliances than the 1991 Gulf war. Saudi
Arabia's decision to pull out of the Cairo discussions places it in
a new and holy trinity of condemnation alongside Iran and the
Vatican. It was followed yesterday by a Sudanese boycott.
King Fahd, President Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Pope and General
Omar Al-Bashir now find themselves ranged with Libya, the clerics
of the Al-Azhar mosque and Egypt's most dangerous Muslim extremist
group in criticising, ignoring, opposing or threatening what is
billed as one of the last chances to prevent a world population
explosion.
The political embarrassment of the Egyptian government ...