Critics dismiss efforts as academic exercises unless talk is made into action. The recently established 20-member expert panel created to address the Iraqi sanctions, is ridiculed by Iraq. Margaret Warner interviews Edmund Ghareeb and Denis Halliday on the latest attack on Iraq and the question of sanctions. It is not clear if Iraq has obtained permission to install an Internet system from the United Nations, which has to approve Iraq's commercial contracts with foreign countries because of the sanctions. Iraq calling for immediate action to lift sanctions, but the Security Council stays firm until Iraq has complied weapon elimination.
Canadian proposal gains momentum.
Charles Sennott looks at the lives of the children of Baghdad. Irreversibly changed by years of sanctions and betrayed by their government, these children represent the future of Iraq. An attempt to end the current gridlock in the Security Council, the proposal calls for assessments of the status of Iraq's disarmament and humanitarian situation. The new Russian proposal calls for more UN involvement in the overseeing of Iraq's demilitarization. It responds to international frustration with US influence over Butler and his team .