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Hans Von SponeckExperts on Iraq

Hans Von Sponeck
A former UN Assistant Secretary General, Von Sponeck headed the UN "oil-for-food" program until he resigned in February 2000 in protest over the continued sanctions on Iraq.






As a UN official, I should not be expected to be silent to that which I recognise as a true human tragedy that needs to be ended," he said. "How long should the civilian population, which is totally innocent on all this, be exposed to such punishment for something that they have never done?”
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