http://www.independent.co.uk/stories/B2307805.html
UN Official Quits in Row Over Aid to Iraq
By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent 07/23/1998
A row over aid to Iraq has led to the resignation of the senior UN official
in Baghdad in charge of humanitarian relief, who has become a vocal critic
of UN sanctions.
Denis Halliday, 57, the Irish-born UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Iraq, is
reported to have resigned because of differences with the UN headquarters in
New York over relief for Iraq. He is said to have clashed with Benon Sevan,
executive director of the UN aid programme for Iraq.
Mr Halliday made no secret of his belief that sanctions were causing
untold suffering to 23 million Iraqis and should be ended. In a recent
interview with The Independent in Baghdad he said Iraq's infrastructure
was collapsing and it would take 10 to 20 years to restore it. He said the
obvious response was "to lift sanctions and pump in money" and humanitarian aid
was "only band-aid stuff."
Appointed last August, Mr Halliday gave a new urgency the UN mission in Iraq.
In December he criticised Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General, for not
asking more forcefully for improved aid programmes. He also objected to the
long delays in getting permission from the UN Sanctions Committee to bringing
items into Iraq. In the past it has held up spare parts for ambulances
because they might be used by the Iraqi army.
Mr Halliday says children are being permanently damaged by malnutrition and
protein deficiency. He said the official ration works properly "for
three weeks out of four". He wanted to give each Iraqi a kilogram of cheese
every month to improve their diet, but New York balked at the total cost of
$900 million every six months.
Aside from inadequate food supplies, Iraqis suffer from the collapse of
their economic infrastructure. Mr Halliday said: "Electric power is 40
per cent of what it used to be". This meant that in the flat Mesopotamian
plain drinking water could not be pumped, leading to an increase in
infant mortality. Generating equipment is so old that spare parts are no
longer available. Only $300m was available and $10bn was needed for new
power stations.
Iraqi agriculture is also short of pesticides, fertiliser and machinery.
The UN Sanctions Committee would not allow in helicopters, as they could
possibly be used for military purposes.
In charge of a much expanded UN relief operation in the wake of the
oil-for-food agreement signed with Iraq in 1996 under Security Council
Resolution 986, Mr Halliday was appalled by the poverty he discovered.
He said: "You go to schools where there are no desks. Kids sit on the floor in
rooms which are very hot in summer and freezing in winter."
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