Damascus Radio on Tuesday stressed that the United Nations inspectors started their tasks in Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction, which have been destroyed earlier by UNSCOM, while the US threatens to launch a strike against Iraq.
The radio added that weapons of mass destruction are largely available not in Iraq or any other Arab country, but rather in Washington’s ally and mouthpiece - - Israel.
In its daily political commentary, the state-run radio affirmed that the UN inspectors’ mission would not be conducted peacefully and reasonably since Washington would exert heavy pressure on inspection teams to condemn Baghdad "one way or another".
The radio further said that the US, which keeps for itself not only the right to threaten Iraq, but also to evaluate the outcome of the inspection teams’ work, without referring to the Security Council, has never given up its war plans of striking Iraq and controlling its oil sources as well as threatening Iraq’s neighboring countries.
The radio, cited by SANA, said that the objective of striking Iraq is to have Europe and Japan surrender to the United States’ will, through the US’s confiscation of the region’s oil sources.
The only option to resist the American plans, the radio explained, is to activate the UN and its organizations as was the case when the Security Council member states of France, China, Russia and other states including Syria struggled in the Security Council discussions against the US mandate and Washington’s attempts to “freeze the Security Council’s role and activity”.
“If the Security Council succeeds in liberating itself from the US domination and solves the Iraqi issue in an official way, then it may succeed in solving the hardest issue of the region, the Palestinian cause and the issue of the Israeli occupation of the Arab territories”, the Syrian radio said.
Iraq’s cooperation with the inspectors will bring the US plans to a “dead end” and will enhance the Security Council's effectiveness on different regional causes, the radio concluded. (Albawaba.com)
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